Törvényen belül/Within the law, 2025
The installation presented at the 2025 "Olvasat" (Reading) group exhibition at Torula Independent Art Space (Győr, Hungary) examines timeless and natural systems, primarily through the relationship between color and form. As a literary parallel, the realistic prose of Erzsébet Galgóczi comes to mind, with particular regard to the issues of female identity and freedom. My personal connection to the writer is that I come from a village near Győr on my mother's side, which borders directly on her birthplace – there was once a connection between our families. This closeness is not only geographical but also experiential: the matriarchal patterns that were characteristic of peasant communities in the past became even more pronounced as a result of the world wars, through survival, quiet leadership, and female care. This structure was also characteristic of my family across generations. Coming from a conservative, Catholic environment, I, like Galgóczi, embarked on an artistic path in which identity beyond heteronormative frameworks and dialogue with heritage play a decisive role. The objects designed for the exhibition combine geometric and organic structures in a hybrid, contrasting form based on elements of abstract painting. The colorful, painted rhombus shapes and the raw wood elements with baroque curves are embedded into each other, visually articulating the female principle, spatial freedom, and the question of the continuous formation of identity. The choice of materials and techniques emphasizes naturalness and intuitive, physical creation. Although Galgóczi's prose documents the social conditions of the Kádár era in Hungary, the concept remains relevant, as government rhetoric and measures in the contemporary political and cultural milieu have exacerbated social divisions, particularly with regard to the situation of the LGBTQ community. The aim of the project is to visually articulate these connections and to promote social reflection and dialogue. (As an accompanying event related to the work, we held a reading performance with Rebeka Kupihár, in which she read from her own book and I from Erzsébet Galgóczi's novel Törvényen belül [Within the Law] in a dialogue-like format.)