Everyone was a child – 2024
In cooperation with the Hintalovon Foundation for Children’s Rights, entitled ‘Everyone was a child’ was realised in autumn 2024. For this group exhibition they invited Hungarian contemporary artists who in some way relate to the theme of childhood in their art. I have long been working on the psychology of memory in my creative work. This is closely related to childhood, which I have also dealt with in previous projects.
Curated by Inemesit Etentuk
For this exhibition, I have created works that use essential elements of my own childhood to invite the viewer to explore their own childhood experiences, while also evoking the importance and power of secure attachment. In addition to thinking with my own textiles, I also returned to one of my favourite childhood pastimes, beading. As a symbol, the pearl is universally associated with the feminine principle of the world, which is also linked to the most important feminine symbols (water, moon, seashell). In most cultures, it has represented the journey of the soul and spirit on the path to perfection, and the string of pearls has represented the family tree, the continuous chain of generations, of existence.
In my work, the evocation of these are fused together with memories of my own girlhood. Sewing the beads one by one onto the textile, I experienced exactly the meditative immersed feeling that I loved to experience as a child. My aim was to evoke this feeling in the viewer through the play of light in the colourful shimmering glass beads and the elixir of the elements of the borosilicate glass. The exhibition blurs and changes the boundaries between inside and outside, and connecting the home with nature and the world around us.
Everyone was a child. Everyone once had a world in which the impossible did not exist, reality was just one alternative among many, because all the wonder and magic worked. So it’s okay if you can’t list the articles of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. It’s enough if you remember what it was like to be a child. What did you need? What gave you joy? How did you want to be treated? Children’s rights are really about these questions.
Artists of the project: Sári Ember, Erika Fábián, Angéla Góg, Anikó Herbert, Dávid Merényi, Eszter Metzing, Márton Simon, Kata Tranker, Marietta Varga, Lia Orsolya Vető
Found child cell / canvas, transparent thread, glass beads, mixed beads, borosilicate glass, white ink, pencil drawing, wadding,
85 x 100 x 15 cm
2024
The two-sided installation "Found child cell" was on display in the Kastner Kommunity showroom
Remaining shine / canvas, transparent thread, cotton thread, glass
beads, borosilicate glass, wadding
30x65x30 cm
2024