The Dark Side of the Sun
The Dark Side of the Sun is a group exhibition that explores the ambiguity of our times in the artistic practice of young artists from the Central Eastern European region. The works selected revolve around the notions of knowledge and extinction, social dystopia and imagination, stability in metamorphosis, body as foreign land of the mind, reality and virtual longing, post-human science-fiction, mysticism and climate change.
With a clearly outlining degree of irony, eeriness and dark humour, the works translate into a disillusioned, bitter lecture of our hopeless, doomed times. They also express a state of apprehension regarding summertime; once considered as an easy, light and unclouded season, summer turned into a menacing period of unpredictable, extreme weather.
Exhibiting artists are Szilvia Bolla, Borsos L艖rinc, Andr谩s Cs茅falvay, Megan Dominescu, S谩ri Ember, Andrea 脡va Gy艖ri, Klaudia Janu拧ko, Selma Selman, Rita S眉veges and M贸nika 脺veges.
Szilvia Bolla explores the medium of photography, studying its potential for abstraction to find intersections between photography, installation and sculpture. Her practice often unfolds in cameraless procedures, such as the photogram or luminogram techniques, which she blends with UV printing on thermoformed plexiglas. The Neurograms featured in this show are based on the conceptual link between photosensitive paper and skin, both reacting to light. The skin鈥檚 reactions are generated by somatosensory neurons, which the artist realised first in plexiglass, then recorded on the photosensitive paper using the technique of luminogram. The blurred, sometimes barely outlining form of the neuron symbolises the disconnection between body and mind in our contemporary Western culture, and by extension, the neurotic state of depression this induces.
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The Dark Side of the Sun is a group exhibition that explores the ambiguity of our times in the artistic practice of young artists from the Central Eastern European region. The works selected revolve around the notions of knowledge and extinction, social dystopia and imagination, stability in metamorphosis, body as foreign land of the mind, reality and virtual longing, post-human science-fiction, mysticism and climate change.
With a clearly outlining degree of irony, eeriness and dark humour, the works translate into a disillusioned, bitter lecture of our hopeless, doomed times. They also express a state of apprehension regarding summertime; once considered as an easy, light and unclouded season, summer turned into a menacing period of unpredictable, extreme weather.
Exhibiting artists are Szilvia Bolla, Borsos L艖rinc, Andr谩s Cs茅falvay, Megan Dominescu, S谩ri Ember, Andrea 脡va Gy艖ri, Klaudia Janu拧ko, Selma Selman, Rita S眉veges and M贸nika 脺veges.
Szilvia Bolla explores the medium of photography, studying its potential for abstraction to find intersections between photography, installation and sculpture. Her practice often unfolds in cameraless procedures, such as the photogram or luminogram techniques, which she blends with UV printing on thermoformed plexiglas. The Neurograms featured in this show are based on the conceptual link between photosensitive paper and skin, both reacting to light. The skin鈥檚 reactions are generated by somatosensory neurons, which the artist realised first in plexiglass, then recorded on the photosensitive paper using the technique of luminogram. The blurred, sometimes barely outlining form of the neuron symbolises the disconnection between body and mind in our contemporary Western culture, and by extension, the neurotic state of depression this induces.
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