PARALLEL ART FOUNDATION
Adrienn Szövérffi - Lukács Sámuel Tompa
Horse on Display
2025.04.01 – 26.
PUCCS Contemporary Art
Opening: 2024, March 31, 6-7.30pm
Official event of Budapest Photo Festival 2025.
The photographic installation points to the current situation of the Roma community in Budapest and the problems of social exclusion. Under socialism, the integration of Gypsies into the labour market and their relocation to cities required a lifestyle and cultural adaptation, which was made more difficult by the lack of education and vocational training, increasing their exclusion. Trying to take the customs of rural life (including their domestic animals) with them, they created absurd situations.
The Muybridge horse behind the bars symbolises the traditional occupations of this ethnic group as well as the loss of the gallery's classical function. The symbol of movement now stands motionless, locked up, without its rider, pointing to a universal history where the values of the past can become the prison of modernity. The work requires an active viewer's approach, and when viewed from a central perspective, the projection of the grid disappears, inviting the viewer to search for a solution.
Adrienn Szövérffi's work explores the nature of personal identity and current social issues. She draws from a photographic toolkit that supports her chosen subject matter in both content and form, and through her installations, she offers further interpretations of the topics she explores.
Lukács Sámuel Tompa is particularly interested in experimenting at the boundaries of moving images and photography. Through this, he seeks new tools to achieve a more complex and expressive visual language.
They have presented their collective and solo works in several group exhibitions, including the Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center, Telep Gallery, Artus Studio in Budapest, Fondation Vasarely in Aix-en-Provence and OFF Bratislava.
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PUCCS Contemporary Art, 1084 Budapest, Víg u. 22.
Organised by Parallel Art Foundation
Curator: Gábor Pintér
www.parallelfoundation.com