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Zsuzsanna G. Szabó
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PUCCS Contemporary Art
2026.01.16-02.20.
The clothing industry produces, artists create – both processes generate endless amounts of by-products that are inherently wasteful, slowly flooding the world with objects.
Zsuzsanna G. Szabó has long been engaged in a deeper analysis of her main medium, knitting, in various contexts. Her installation presented at Puccs was inspired by the large amount of experimental knitting that inevitably accumulates in workshops during the creation of knitted objects. Contemplating the sculpture installation created from these objects, which fills the entire space, we can reflect on our already visually overstimulated world, the textile industry's environmentally damaging overproduction, chaos, and the beauty inherent in it.
Many knitting require a lot of time. The exhibited fabrics were all made on manually operated flat knitting machines, bearing the traces of the long, meditative, artisanal work that went into their creation, which gives them added meaning.
Zsuzsanna G. Szabó (Budapest, 1990) is a textile artist who graduated from the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design with a degree in fashion and textile design. In 2015 and 2016, she participated in theater director and visual artist Robert Wilson's summer residency program at the Watermill Center in New York, where she gained experience in costume design and performance art. She works in performance art, installations, and knitwear and costume design, primarily in the field of contemporary dance. Her main area of creation is costume-centered performance. The genre is unique in that the focus is on the shaped material, blurring and dissolving the boundaries between performing arts, visual arts, and applied arts. Her most important creative tool is knitting, but she also works with embroidery and other textile techniques, and she constantly examines and researches the cultural and social significance of these activities. She often reflects on her own life in her works, so her frequent themes are motherhood, femininity, and the ideas based on them.
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On view 0-24h
PUCCS Contemporary Art, 1084 Budapest, Víg u. 22.
Organised by Parallel Art Foundation
Curator: Gábor Pintér
Supported by Budapest - District 8 Józsefváros Municipality and Hungarian Academy of Arts.
