In the joint exhibition of Zita Borbély and Eszter Metzing, the sometimes intensifying, sometimes subsiding feelings that are familiar to everyone, and that accompany human life throughout its various stages, are visually expressed, complemented by the artists’ own experiences and observations.
In all its layers, the exhibition emphasises the collective experience of our relationship to change, passing and the inevitability of the passage of time, while at the same time trying to create an atmospheric environment in which our anxiety about these very things can be dissolved.
The works are based on the points of distinction and connection between man and animal, the ever-changing point of reference for man’s self-definition (Giorgio Agamben), but their focus is not on man and/or animal, but rather on the space between them, opening up the possibility of interpretation.
This indeterminacy is alluded to in Soma Kazsimér’s sensual text, which underpins and in places narrates the works seen and heard in the
exhibition.
The space, the works and the text are in active dialogue with each other, as the visually distinct works of Metzing and Borbély gradually merge into a common installation as they move through the exhibition space.
The soft sounds composed by Fukui Ryu and the lights carefully set in the basement venue amplify this continuity. The cool softness of the space contrasts with the harsh warmth of the outside: this form of shelter dulls the negative feelings that accompany our relationship to finitude, which the exhibition evokes but also aims to heal.
The exhibition can be viewed by appointment only, in the basement of the FKSE (1077 Budapest, Rottenbiller u. 35.). To register for the viewing, please send an e-mail to .