Szabolcs Szolnoki: Insomnia

Szabolcs Szolnoki's new paintings, with their familiar visual style, lead us into the strange psychological states of insomnia, into a world hovering between wakefulness and sleep. The figures, people, animals, plants, and objects appearing on his canvases merge hazily with their spatial surroundings, while the blurred details keep the viewer on the border between reality and imagination, the figurative and the abstract, recognition and uncertainty. The paintings are visionary: their details are sometimes sharply defined, sometimes blurred, taking on a floating, diffuse character, their contours almost lost in the background. If it is not the transience of the liminal spaces he creates, then it is the incongruous, unsettling strangeness of the figures that disturbs the clarity of perception and the stable viewpoint. Like Szolnoki's earlier works, the associative creations of Insomnia do not tell a single story; but the viewer's experiences, memories, and associations further shape the scenes suggested by the images.

"Szolnoki's art evokes the randomness of cyanotypes: it provides sharp contours while leaving room for chance and incompleteness. Looking at his images, we feel as if we are glimpsing into his personal dreams—fragmented, yet completely relatable, familiar and foreign worlds at the same time." (Gábor Martos)

Location: 1114 Budapest, Bartók Béla út 25.

Date: Wednesday, November 12, 2025, 7 p.m.

The exhibition is open from November 12 to December 19, every weekday from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m. at the Faur Zsófi Gallery.

With kind regards

Faur Zsófi