PARALLEL ART FOUNDATION
Kamilla Szeli
Remus
2025.11.07 – 30.
PUCCS Contemporary Art
Opening: 2025, Nov 7., 6-7.30pm
What is this place?
I see the source. It towers above me in its orange splendor. It looks familiar. It's as if I've drunk from it before. Breast milk?
Remus, wake up!
This is the new world.
Kamilla Szeli, with her works, creates the life of her own fictional soft planet, where the mysterious forms of underwater worlds, the alien aesthetics of extra-terrestrial life, and symbols of femininity intertwine. She brings her sculptures to life using traditional techniques of sewing, stuffing, and wool felting, inviting interaction with their softness and organic yet unfamiliar forms.
In her works, textile as a medium conveys the duality of fragility and flexibility. The volume achieved through stuffing reflects the changing shapes of the female body, while the wool felting reflects the ancient power of motherhood. Her sculptures are at once playful and unsettling, familiar and alien, just like the inhabitants of the mysterious planet she imagines.
When creating her works, the artist's main inspiration is to use visual language to tell stories about existence, transformation, and mysterious relationships. She invites the viewer to enter this world woven from fabric and imagination and discover the sometimes grotesque stories hidden behind the soft forms.
[Remus 2025, textile, wool, polyurethane foam, glass]
On view 0-24h
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Supported by Budapest - District 8 Józsefváros Municipality and Hungarian Academy of Arts.
PUCCS Contemporary Art, 1084 Budapest, Víg u. 22.
Organised by Parallel Art Foundation
Curator: Gábor Pintér