Archive 2021 KubaParis

Lair

Location

Basement of Studio of Young Artists’ Association, Budapest

Date

25.10 –05.11.2021

Curator

Curators are the artists

Photography

Barnabás Neogrády-Kiss

Subheadline

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 silent

Text

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