Dominik Bárdi: Pantry // installation
Bárdi Dominik: Pantry
Cairo Contemporary, Budapest
1071 Budapest, Lövölde tér 7.
8 August - 3 September 2024.
Open: 0-24h
[no opening event]
Schedule
The pantry carries the association of a homely environment. It's a lovely thought that lives in our minds as grandma's preserves line up. Although the collective, shared moments of remembrance were the subject of the artist's installation, it is not a historical memory, but a recollection of childhood. The process of recollection is important to her, as an object can cause our minds to flash back to moments in our past. The melting wax is a metaphor for the intimate family idyll. The jars are in different colours and we associate different flavours with them. There is also the problem of the half-empty or half-full question: just as the wax imitates the inner content of the empty glass, it fills it with meaning.
Dominik Bárdi has been working for more than a year on the representation of transparency, mainly using sculptural tools. He creates paintings and reliefs with wax and the light projected onto it. Most of these works are reliefs on a glass surface with two complementary or even contradictory views. He patterns the wax on the glass surface so that light can easily pass through. The rules of the game for the relief change and require a new contrasting patterning. The darker the image, the thicker the layer of wax. The view through the glass can never be completely sharp, so only sudden changes in thickness can give a sense of tonal variation. While on one side it looks like a photograph, the other side appears as an almost uninterpretable relief, a kind of negative of the relief: the darker parts are the high parts and the illuminated parts are the low parts.
Dominik Bárdi was born in 2000 and is currently a sculpture student at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts. He was awarded a Ludwig Fellowship in 2023. His work has been shown in group exhibitions at MAMŰ Gallery and ISBN Gallery, among others. His chosen themes often include everyday elements. She often uses found objects and her work is also characterised by the evocation of childhood.
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Curator: Gábor Pintér
Supported by: the Municipality of Erzsébetváros
Collaborating Partner: Johanna Bischitz Integrated Human Services Centre
Cairo Contemporary
Cairo Contemporary is a project space of Parallel Art Foundation, opened in July 2023 on Lövölde square. Beyond its unique atmosphere, the special characteristic of the space is that the exhibited works can only be seen and interpreted through the windows. Artists are invited from Hungary and abroad, representing various genres, including painting, sculpture, photography, design, as well as their peripheries.