The State of Things (working title) group exhibition

"Consensus is the horizon never reached." /Jean-François Lyotard/

The collaboration between the artists featured in the exhibition began at the Doctoral School of the Hungarian University of Fine Arts. Gábor Áfrány and Andrea Sztojánovits graduated from the Intermedia Department of the MKE, Réka Harsányi and Juli Laczkó studied at the MOME's Visual Communication Department, Réka Szűcs became an experimental filmmaker from a literary historian, while their PhD supervisor, Zoltán Szegedy-Maszák, originally a painter later graduated in Intermedia.

The collaboration of the members of the group is interesting precisely because of this multifaceted perspective: the dialogue of very different generations, artistic positions and media provides a striking harmony to their common voice. The strength of their joint presentation in the context of the exhibition lies in the free and critical dialogue between the individual and the community, in their openness and sincere interest in each other's way of thinking, which can be felt in their collective and individual works.

The (working) title "The State of Things", a reference to Wim Wenders' film is obviously ambiguous in the case of a group exhibition juxtaposing different artistic positions: on the one hand, it gently suggests that the dialogue between the individual and the group (metaphorically, society) is never free of conflict. On the other hand, it raises the question of what is the 'reality' to which the contemporary artist is supposed to respond: what is it that the director, holding the camera up as a weapon in front of him in Wenders' final scene is so desperately filming?