Archive
2021
KubaParis
Lair
Location
Basement of Studio of Young Artists’ Association, BudapestDate
25.10 –05.11.2021Curator
Curators are the artistsPhotography
Barnabás Neogrády-KissSubheadline
We grind the hard rock and through mud we stand at the stomach of the Whole; on the ninth day negative light seeps through - the Lair speaks and we are silentText
At this time the depth of the cellar is not only the dark segment of the house that colludes with the infernal underground powers beneath, but rather the entrance of the imagined space that leads into the core of the Earth. Just like the gate of an underground graveyard container through which one can see what preceded and what will follow the era of mankind. But we can also call it an archeo-futuristic portal through which we can encounter the scattered and dissolved traces of the imaginatory practices of earlier creatures. Inside of this enormous sarchophagus the mythological creatures of the remnant pasts are being created from organic and inorganic materials. The traces of life that are dissolved and diluted in the perspectives of thousands and thousands of years are preserved only in the format of microscopic laser images. The fountain of omniscience had long been dried up: only otherworldly toxins are fluorescing in its bottom. It is hard to decide whether they are the symbols of redemption, or merely the prophecies of an unavoidable fate. But one thing is sure: it is better to bury these chimeras deeply into the shafts of our imagination. Not only for the sake of our own security, but rather for the safety of the next civilizations.
Zsolt Miklósvölgyi