Closing exhibition guide // The softness of my nature // The house alive with reeds
Final dual exhibition talk at the Godot Contemporary Art Institute’s exhibitions on Tuesday, January 16 at 17.
In the galleries, the exhibiting artists guide the visitors through.
Gallai Judit Ágnes and Gáspár Annamária: The softness of my nature
https://www.godot.hu/post/term%C3%A9szetem-puhas%C3%A1ga
Éles Lóránt – Erekkel eleven a ház
https://www.godot.hu/post/erekkel-eleven-a-h%C3%A1z
Admission ticket: 2500,-
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Gallai Judit Ágnes and Gáspár Annamária: The softness of my nature
Gallai Judit Ágnes and Gáspár Annamária’s exhibition carries the viewer into the deepest recesses of the unconscious, where body and instinct steer the world. Monumental installations, technical diversity and the magical softness of tenderness mark the show “Természetem puhasága,” opening in the Godot Kortárs Művészeti Intézet on 23, the pair’s most complex project to date.
Judit Ágnes Gallai and Annamária Gáspár are two remarkable artists of the thirties generation who have been collaborating on a joint exhibition for years. Each of them, with a distinctly striking and powerful visual world, has set as a goal the symbolic portrayal of themes such as self‑reflection, care, a connection with the subconscious, trauma processing, the experience of our own and our human relationships’ vulnerability, adaptation and the ability to create from within ourselves. Their works urge us to embrace the creative power that emerges from confronting ourselves and from resilience.
Softness and sensitivity have begun to receive a positive appraisal alongside shifts in recent social thinking, even as our world, still grounded in masculine principles, remains unclear on how we might assert these qualities. In their art, Gallai Judit Ágnes and Gáspár Annamária aim to uncover the positive force hidden in actions that have previously been seen as weak or secondary, blending this with a symbolic mode of representation drawn from the visual world of dreams and visions.
Artists with a distinctly unique and powerful visual language emerge simultaneously into the space with significant painting practice, and alongside material experiments they create installations, objects and textile artworks. On the monumental installation that has risen through years of collaborative work, visitors are invited to a self‑reflective engagement rather than social activism, drawing attention to the fact that solutions must begin at the individual level rather than the community.
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Éles Lóránt: Erekkel Eleven at the House
Lóránt Éles is the 2022 edition Godot Art Expo’s top prize recipient, a leading domestic proponent of contemporary sculpture’s ambitions. His works simultaneously evoke the sensations of object and artwork, as well as the impact of both familiar and barely identifiable means. Pipes hidden behind walls and beneath our cities return to our sculptures as humanity’s forgotten creations, which at once confine and lock something unknown within themselves. The stark, industrial edges and the organic elements they conceal blend brilliantly, drawing attention to the contradictions of today and tomorrow. What remains of us? The answers Éles offers to that question are as ambiguous as his sculptures, which, when examined up close and swallowed into the grotesque world of cracks and openings, reveal an entirely new dimension. The bizarre, unconventional sculptures simultaneously compel us to approach and unsettle us. At the exhibition organised by Lóránt Éles on the fourth floor of Godot Labor, moving upward, we descend deeper, all the way into the layers of earth and water.
Éles Lóránt studied sculpture at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Pécs in 2017. Between 2020 and 2022 he was a recipient of the Derkovits Gyula Fine Arts Scholarship.
