Exhibit guide // The purity of my nature // The house is alive with nettles
Dual guided tours of the exhibitions at the Godot Contemporary Arts Institute on Saturday, January 13 at 17.
In the studios, the exhibiting artists guide visitors through.
Judit Ágnes Gallai and Annamária Gáspár: The Softness of My Nature
https://www.godot.hu/post/term%C3%A9szetem-puhas%C3%A1ga
Éles Lóránt: ‘Erekkel eleven the house’
Please consult https://www.godot.hu/post/erekkel-eleven-a-h%C3%A1z for more information.
Entry ticket: 2500,-
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Gallai Judit Ágnes and Gáspár Annamária: The softness of my nature
The exhibition by Judit Ágnes Gallai and Annamária Gáspár leads visitors into the deepest folds of the subconscious, where body and instinct rule the world. Monumental installations, technical diversity and the magical allure of softness characterise the show “The Softness of My Nature,” opening at the Godot Institute of Contemporary Art in November 23, and represents the two artists’ most complex project to date.
Judit Ágnes Gallai and Annamária Gáspár are two noteworthy artists of the thirtieth‑generation of creators, who have been collaborating on their joint exhibition for years. Each artist, with a distinctly idiosyncratic and powerful visual world, has set as their objective the symbolic portrayal of themes such as self‑reflection, care, connecting with subconscious material, trauma processing, experiencing the fragility of ourselves and our human relationships, adaptability, and the ability to create from within ourselves. The works urge us to encounter ourselves and to savour the creative power that emerges from resilience.
Softness and sensitivity have begun to gain a positive reputation along the changing currents of recent societal thought, even though within a world built on masculine principles it is still unclear how we might assert these attributes. In their work, Judith‑Ágnes Gallai and Annamária Gáspár set out to uncover the positive power hidden in actions that were formerly often considered weak or secondary, combining this with a symbolic mode of representation that draws from the visionary realms of dreams and visions.
Artists with a distinctly unique and powerful visual world step into the space with an equally substantial body of painting, while also creating installations, objects and textile works alongside their material experiments. Their monumental exhibition, which has emerged from several years of collaborative effort, invites visitors to a self‑reflective immersion rather than social activism, drawing attention to the fact that the solution must begin at the individual level instead of the community.
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Éles Lóránt – Erekkel eleven a ház
Éles Lóránt is the main prize winner of the 2022 Godot Art Expo, a leading domestic figure in contemporary sculpture. His works simultaneously convey the impression of object and piece of art, drawing on the influence of familiar or even indeterminate means. Pipes hidden behind walls and beneath our cities reappear as forgotten creations of humanity, locked within sculptures that also seal something unknown inside. The stark, industrial barracks and the organic elements they contain forge a daring blend that points to the contradictions of the present and the future. What remains of us? The answers Éles offers to that question are as ambiguous as his sculptures, which, when examined up close and snapped into the grotesque worlds of fissures and openings, reveal a wholly new dimension. The bizarre, unconventional sculptures at once urge us closer and unsettle us. As one moves upward through the exhibition on the fourth floor of Godot Labor, we actually descend ever deeper, all the way into the layers below earth and water.
Lóránt Éles studied sculpture at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Pécs, 2017. Between 2020 and 2022 he was a recipient of the Derkovits Gyula Visual Arts Scholarship.