Horváth Éva Monika

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The Godot Gallery respectfully invites you

Horváth Éva Monika

Soft skill

for the exhibition titled.

Opening: 2007 on 30 May at 19

Opening: Lóránd Hegyi, art historian

Cooperates: Kovács Ágnes singer

Open: until June 23

Opening hours: Tuesday to Friday 10 to 18, Saturday between 10 and 13.

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What is levitation?

Beyond mere material needs, the quality of life is defined by the emotions we live through. Nothing can be conceived without antecedents, yet for the pure it is already implicit that the totality carries a pre‑antecedent purity. Even the Gnostic image of ‘Sophia Pistis’ cannot fully capture that LAUNCHING I so often refer to in my work as a ‘supernatural open feeling’. Still, with the curiosity of dilated pupils and the heretical zeal of catechisms, I wish to articulate the nature of gazing at the world in wonder. Every collaboration is mysterious, and in its appearance it is elliptically constructed, that is, hidden. Light can be shed on the (un)hidden processes if I confine the unsettling fire‑wheel of the ‘infinitum regresszum’ to a set interval of time, and live through that period with a firm sense of identity. Parallel layers of meaning may interlink, setting induction and levitation in motion.

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The “soft skill” can deepen the universe of experience. By altering the primary embedding of one of the most common “disturbing psychic factors,” a directed and free association cognitive process can be set in motion on the surface, whose consequence is the dissolution of restlessness by means of overflow. In terms of training a graspable, amorphous notion of an emotion for reason, it can be likened to kennings—archaic‑symbolic expressions that crystallise into conscious poetry. Its feeling softens into a more delicate (douce habilité) and melancholic aura, making it more approachable for acceptance (integration) and presenting itself as the most personal inheriting variable of the feeling. At this point the feeling of “Stella Maris” emerges in the “human desert” and becomes intelligible as the source of “Logos Spermatikoi.”

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