Vitamin D group exhibition TOBE x MOME

2025-07-23T12:00:00.000Z  -  2025-08-15T16:00:00.000Z

For the fourth time, TOBE Gallery is organizing a joint exhibition with the Photography Department of MOME, which, as a continuation of previous collaborations, has been titled *D-VITAMIN*. Through this joint exhibition, students gain professional experience beyond the university walls in the world of commercial galleries, while the general public has the opportunity to discover and get to know young talents early in their careers. With the particiaption of Dorottya Deák (MA1), Márk Péter Szabó (BA Diploma), Laura Virág Szekeres (MA Diploma), Áron Tóth-Heyn (BA Diploma) and Zsófia Vágó (BA2)

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Schedule

Dorottya Deák (MA1)

Dorottya Deák is interested in problems of medial transition, exploring the possibilities of hybridity—gestures that incorporate painting, drawing, and text into photography. In parallel, over the past year she has been focused on the formal and conceptual world of the photobook as a medium, examining how meaning emerges not from individual images but from the relationships between them and their ensemble with text.

*The Shelters of the Self* provides the conceptual framework for her still-developing work, which addresses transitions, modes of appearance and disappearance, and strategies of the self’s existence. The photographs capture organic structures that can protect, hide, or shelter a manifesting presence. By playing with the intimacy of drawing and collage, and utilising the precision of large-format photography to portray detail and space, this new series reflects on the shifting thresholds between reality and fiction, and the construction of the self. Her photobook *Záradék/Close* (2024) will also be on display, addressing themes of loneliness, alienation, belonging, and connection.

Márk Szabó (BA Diploma)

In his work, Márk Péter Szabó combines an interest in socially and culturally sensitive topics with aesthetic inquiry. He sees photography not merely as an image-recording tool, but as a way of thinking—a medium through which questions can be raised and connections examined. Lately, he has become increasingly engaged with the visual language of fashion and its representation, especially the potential for reinterpreting it through multimedia and experimental approaches.

His series *The Center of the World* was created during an Erasmus semester in Hong Kong. During this time, he befriended several Mainland Chinese individuals who, through their personal stories, gave him insight into a reality that was unfamiliar and often grotesque. He learned about the conditions in which they grew up: institutional control, all-encompassing propaganda, and the normalization of people disappearing without a trace. The series is a lyrical documentation of these experiences, aiming to provide a glimpse into this closed and oppressive world through personal narratives.

Laura Virág Szekeres (MA Diploma)

Laura Virág Szekeres’s work explores birth narratives and issues related to the female body, bodily perception, and autonomy. Her art is inspired by personal stories, experiences, and bodily sensations. She earned both her BA and MA at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, and studied for one year at Les Beaux-Arts de Marseille. Her works are often presented in self-bound photobooks. Her first solo exhibition, *You Came Early*, focused on premature birth stories and opened in 2024 at FUGA Budapest, curated by Flóra Gadó and Regina Mihály.

She photographs births following her own curiosity—from a perspective of never having given birth. Her work captures the physical and emotional intensity of the process and brings her closer to her own desires and fears. She abstracts the concept of fertility, the sensation of menstruation, and the character and color temperature of different phases of the cycle. The birth images depict home birth—a potential form of female bodily autonomy—standing in stark contrast to the medicalized, institutional practice of childbirth. The book *Allowing Myself to Be*, made from images of this series, will also be presented in the exhibition. Its format invites viewers to physically engage with the artwork and develop a deeper relationship with it.

Áron Tóth-Heyn (BA Diploma)

Áron Tóth-Heyn is an artist living between Budapest and Paris. In his photographic practice, he integrates various media to create layered works that explore human experience. His series *Barbed Vine* was presented in 2024 at the OFF Bratislava festival (ON Award), at Photon Gallery in Ljubljana, during Nuit Blanche in Paris, and in the third issue of *If Not Now* magazine. He graduated from MOME, studied at Gobelins in Paris, and also pursued music studies. In 2025, he was awarded the Stefan Lengyel Excellence Scholarship.

His first book, *De rerum natura*, which investigates the porous boundary between the natural and the artificial, forms the core of his exhibited work. It suggests that perhaps we ourselves are merely a force of nature through which matter assumes new forms in this endless continuum. Echoing Michelangelo Pistoletto’s *Third Paradise*, the book offers a collection of traces—a visual meditation on the Anthropocene and the invisible threads that connect everything.

Zsófia Vágó (BA2)

Zsófia Vágó’s creative process blends experimental, analog, and digital techniques. Her subject matter is typically rooted in personal experience. Her series often deal with familial, mental health, and social issues. Her photographs are characterized by a human-centered approach and the use of various staged compositions. Her series *We Reserved the Spaces* was presented in a solo exhibition in 2024 (Viadukt Terasz).

Her featured series *Blue Appetite* centers around her personal struggle with anorexia. In response to the *Point of View* theme, she developed a perspective of an ex-anorexic, examining not only the physical aspects of hunger but also the disappearance of desire, libido, and the ability to feel pleasure. The states of sexual disinterest and bodily alienation, often accompanying eating disorders, are organically connected in this series to the aestheticized yet empty blueness of hunger. The project was completed in May 2024; over time, the bread-imprinted images cracked and became almost unrecognizable. This impermanence also signals the possibility of healing: the series not only documents but also suggests a transition toward a state in which the body is no longer a site of self-punishment, but one of self-care and acceptance.

Location

TOBE GALLERY

TOBE Gallery is the first step of a conceptual idea called, TOmas BEa project. The objective of TOBE is to be present, to be visible on the scene of contemporary photography. Their purpose with this new space in the field of contemporary photography and collage art in the city of Budapest is to seek a newer dialogue, a different point of view, with a different way of expressing and communicating photography as art.

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