Mayflower - 2024
Site specific installation
latex, transparent thread, borosilicate glass, wadding,
variable sizes
2024
It was exhibited at the “Kamalect: Kőbánya Inverse” pop-up exhibition in collaboration with Dialect Collective at Antal Dreher Historical Brewery, Budapest, 2024
Curated by Laura Fedics
The core of the Mayflower installation was originally created for the May Day event held at Art Quarter Budapest and was exhibited in the AQB Garden in May 2024.
That exhibition and event were curated by Júlia Kerekes and Valentina Várhelyi.
Women’s time passes differently, our fertility is finite, while we are reborn every month, purified and practising survival. Blooming happens again and again throughout our lives, and my installation Mayflower explores the multilayered intricacies of this phenomenon.
With the ghostly appearance of the white tentacles, I wanted to evoke a figure that evokes a festive costume, at once vulnerable in its sensitivity and slightly frightening in its towering overhead. In front of the sprawling figure of the tentacle, an organic form of deep red borosilicate glass, seemingly dripping but glistening motionlessly, flows from a few upraised limb-like tendrils.
My installation is a reflection on our inner rituals of naturalism, hidden from the outside world, through the transient, ever-changing material of natural latex and the immobility of the red dripping glass.
