We are the essence of it. We construct it.
It falls apart.
- 2025
Túlömlünk. Elrendezzük. Szétesik.
Duo exhibition with Zita Borbély
Curated by Júlia Hermann
Contributing artists were Ryu Fukui and Soma Kazsimér
Photos by Pál Zwickl
It was on display between June 28 and July 28,
at FKSE (Studio of Young Artists Association) Basement, 2025.
Graphic design by Zita Borbély
"In the joint exhibition of Zita Borbély and Eszter Metzing, the sometimes intensifying, sometimes subsiding feelings that are familiar to everyone, and that accompany human life throughout its various stages, are visually expressed, complemented by the artists’ own experiences and observations.
In all its layers, the exhibition emphasises the collective experience of our relationship to change, passing and the inevitability of the passage of time, while at the same time trying to create an atmospheric environment in which our anxiety about these very things can be dissolved. The works are based on the points of distinction and connection between man and animal, the ever-changing point of reference for man's self-definition (Giorgio Agamben), but their focus is not on man and/or animal, but rather on the space between them, opening up the possibility of interpretation. This indeterminacy is alluded to in Soma Kazsimér's sensual text, which underpins and in places narrates the works seen and heard in the exhibition.
The space, the works and the text are in active dialogue with each other, as the visually distinct works of Metzing and Borbély gradually merge into a common installation as they move through the exhibition space. The soft sounds composed by Fukui Ryu and the lights carefully set in the basement venue amplify this continuity. The cool softness of the space contrasts with the harsh warmth of the outside: this form of shelter dulls the negative feelings that accompany our relationship to finitude, which the exhibition evokes but also aims to heal."
Júlia Herrman, curator
Inspired by the exhibition, poet Kazsimér Soma wrote a lyrical text, which was read aloud during the opening ceremony as part of a musical performance accompanied by musician and visual artist Fukui Ryu.
Az irhája /The pelt/
Wool yarn, stainless conductive thread, tufting canvas, cotton thread
105x145x10cm
2025
This is the last piece from our duo exhibition "Pelt", which we created entirely together with Zita Borbély , from planning to the final phase.
It’s an interactive piece that reacts audibly when different parts of its body are stroked. The sounds, which we literally sewed into the “fur,” are startling sounds created by Fukui Ryu, which alternate and surprise the toucher.
This work came to life with these characteristics and was on display at the end of the space, where the creative dialogue between the two threads, which had only intensified until then, could become one.
Technical help and support by János Donnák.
