Aimee McCrory: Roller Coaster. Scenes from a Marriage
Aimee McCrory’s award-winning series Roller Coaster: Scenes from a Marriage centers on the artist’s own marriage of over four decades, exploring the joys and challenges of growing old together. Through candid and intimate moments, the series presents the dynamics of marriage while approaching the theme of aging with subtle humor and dignity. The project began during the pandemic when McCrory felt immense fear of losing her husband, Don. From this inner anxiety emerged a visual narrative that captures the fragility and beauty of a life spent together.
The exhibition is free to visit between
April 8 – May 18, 2025
Tuesday – Sunday: 12pm – 7pm
Closed on Mondays and holidays.
Curator: László Baki
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Aimee McCrory’s award-winning series Roller Coaster: Scenes from a Marriage centers on the artist’s own marriage of over four decades, exploring the joys and challenges of growing old together. Through candid and intimate moments, the series presents the dynamics of marriage while approaching the theme of aging with subtle humor and dignity. The project began during the pandemic when McCrory felt immense fear of losing her husband, Don. From this inner anxiety emerged a visual narrative that captures the fragility and beauty of a life spent together.
As McCrory explained that, drawing on her theatrical background, she created the series in a “pseudo-documentary style.” Although the images depict staged scenes, they still feel lifelike. The series focuses on the small yet significant moments of everyday life. McCrory transforms reality in such a way that allows viewers to easily relate to the images and reflect on the dynamics of their own relationships.
The series also touches on the subject of aging, which is often overlooked or considered taboo in Western culture. McCrory draws attention to the beauty and challenges of old age, as well as the idea that aging does not necessarily equate to feelings of insignificance or abandonment. The 16 photographs on display in the PaperLab Gallery radiate both intimacy and universality, encouraging viewers to confront their own emotions and experiences.
The exhibition is free to visit between
April 8 – May 18, 2025
Tuesday – Sunday: 12pm – 7pm
Closed on Mondays and holidays.
Curator: László Baki
Hungarian House of Photography - Mai Manó House
Mai Manó House – The Hungarian House of Photographers – operates in a studio-house built at the end of 19th century, for the commission of Mai Manó (1855-1917), Imperial and Royal Court Photographer. This special, eight-story neo-renaissance monument is unique in world architecture: we have no knowledge of any other intact turn-of-the-century studiohouse. In addition, it serves its original goal, the case of photography again. The aim of Mai Manó House is to advance the development of Hungarian photography and raise photography’s national prestige as a distinct form of art. The institution plays a marked role in the cultural life of Budapest and Hungary, while the organization of exhibitions and programs abroad is getting more and more emphasis within its activities. The reputation of justly world-famous Hungarian photographers of the 20th century offers a great opportunity to regain our old status in the world of photography by the introduction of the generations following those great masters