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Hanna Szabó-Sáfrány
I missed a spot
Cairo Contemporary, Budapest
1071 Budapest, Lövölde tér 7.2025, May 31 - July 27
On view 0-24hHanna Szabó-Sáfrány, Budapest-based visual artist and electronic musician. In her project-based works, she focuses, in many cases, on comically exaggerated physicality, such as the grin, the parasitic body hair, or the reproduction on assembly line. Her visual mind-maps and objects are dealing, among other things, with fictional notions of the reproduction of the human being, or with contemporary assumptions about the body's ancient past.
I missed a spot is one of a series of chameleon-like puppet installations, with the recurring element of three grinning heads and their lithe bodies. The puppets change character in different appearances and adapt to their environment. This provides an opportunity to contextualise their grins, making them sometimes compulsive, sometimes seductive, and in other cases exaggerated as a reaction to existential crisis. I missed a spot, exhibited at the FKSE Gallery in February 2025, took the form of a person compulsively cleaning a dusty basement in an attempt to achieve shiny surfaces. This summer, she will activate herself in the space of Cairo.
Hanna Szabó-Sáfrány (2001) is currently studying painting at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts. In 2024, as part of the international MUTO Project "If There's a Common Thread" exhibition series, she participated in an art colony in a nuclear bunker in Zlín. She occasionally performs and/or exhibits at electronic music events (Zaj+, KamaRave, Képzaj, Memphis Series, Wounded Healer). She is the winner of the 2024 Telekom Electronic Beats SZELEKTOR. Since 2024, she is a member of the Young Artists’ Studio Association, where she participated in the debut exhibition "Verbs of Existence" for new members.
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Curator: Gábor Pintér
Cooperation partner: Bischitz Johanna Integrated Human Service Centre
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