The thematic exhibition series FOTOTAXIS, launched in 2019 in Csikász Gallery in Veszprém and organized every two years since then, aims to present the works of the most interesting members of the young, recent graduates or the already known generation of photographers for the third time in 2025.
The invited exhibitors explore some of the most pressing and increasingly troubling phenomena of our present age: the biological body, nature, the Anthropocene, the possible future forms of collective memory, the posthuman, speculative so-called alternative realities, as well as the most diverse technologies connected to these.
No less – and in a self-reflective manner – they also turn to the fundamentally changing role of photography and the technical image in the age of artificial intelligence and generative reality.
The previous highly acclaimed exhibition No/Body/Nem/Test focused on the contemporary representation of the female body, showcasing the works of women photographers. The upcoming exhibition, planned for 2025, examines the technical and technological issues of the fixed image.
Techno/Topia
Futures of the Technical Image
“PH'NGLUI MGLW'NAFH CTHULHU R'LYEH WGAH'NAGL FHTAGN”
In the 21st century, our ways of seeing are shaped to an unprecedented degree by image-making and image-recording technologies: cameras of every kind, drones, satellites, generative artificial intelligence software, and a wide range of systems capable of producing images in the most diverse ways.
Through a selection of characteristic artistic practices, the exhibition explores how the technical image is transforming not only our concepts of reality, but also our understanding of the image itself – and how, in doing so, it creates its own utopias and dystopias.
Techno/Topia investigates not only the dynamic transformation of perceptible reality through image technologies, but also the structures of power, the errors and distortions that lie behind images. From now on, what do we call an image? Whose dream – and whose nightmare – is this new visual world?
Exhibitors:
Csilla Kőműves, Richárd Kiss, Viktor Varga – Lilla Váczi, Balázs Deim, Dávid Bíró, Emese Toldi, Levente Ákos, Tamás Domonkos Németh
The invited artists are graduates of MOME, METU and MATE, and members of FFS.
Curator: Gábor Gerhes
Co-curator: Gábor Áfrány
On view till 16 November 2025
Image: Lilla Váczi - Viktor Varga
Interior photo: Tamás Domonkos Németh
