Szövérffi Adrienn - Tompa Lukács Sámuel: Horse on Display
Horse on Display
2025.04.01 - 26.
PUCCS Contemporary Art
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> The exhibition is part of the official programme of the Budapest PhotoFestival 2025.
The photographic installation highlights the current situation of the gypsy community in Budapest and the problems of social exclusion. Under socialism, the integration of Gypsies into the labour market and their relocation to cities required a lifestyle and cultural adaptation, which was made more difficult by the lack of education and vocational training, further increasing their exclusion. The habits brought with them from rural life (including pets) created absurd situations.
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The Muybridge horse behind Puccs' bars symbolises the traditional occupations of this ethnic group and the loss of the gallery's classical function: the symbol of movement now stands motionless, closed, without its rider, pointing to a universal history where the values of the past can become the prison of modernity.
The work requires an active approach from the viewer, and when viewed from a central perspective, the projection of the grid disappears, inviting the visitor to search for a solution.
Adrienn Szövérffi's work explores the nature of personal identity and currents social problems. She draws on a photographic toolkit that supports her chosen subject both in content and form. Through her installations she offers further interpretations of the issues she addresses.
Sámuel Tompa Lukács experiments at the interface of moving image and photography, through which he seeks new linguistic tools for a more complex and expressive formulation.
Their collective and solo work has been shown in numerous group exhibitions, including at the Robert Capa Museum of Contemporary Photography, Telep Gallery and Artus Studio in Budapest, Fondation Vasarely in Aix-en-Provence, and OFF Bratislava in Bratislava.
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PUCCS Contemporary Art, 1084 Budapest, Víg u. 22.
Organised by Parallel Art Foundation