What’s New on Futrinka Street? – Exhibition Opening of Terézia Hajgató
Here is a clear, faithful English translation:
At the center of my work are toys, childhood favorites, and pop-cultural heroes. The multitude of colors, the forms that melt into one another—sometimes elaborately detailed, elsewhere deliberately rough—are not signs of technical imprecision; for me, they are responses articulated in the language of painting to an uncertain and shifting reality. I am not aiming to illustrate, but to condense the feeling that today’s young generation—and I myself within it—experiences in a constantly changing, often unfathomable social environment.
The chaos that appears in the paintings is not accidental: it is consciously composed instability. This is how I can reveal the state in which my identity, and the identity of my generation, is taking shape.
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For me, the motif of play is both a refuge and a question mark. I keep asking myself: who is it that offers protection? What does it mean to be a hero today in a country where the points of connection between generations are steadily disappearing? I draw consciously on the iconography of my childhood, but not out of nostalgia—rather to discover new meanings within it. I do not wish to reconstruct the past, but to reinterpret it: the heroic figures and plush toys that once offered comfort have become carriers of encoded psychological and social patterns for me.
The visual cavalcade I create—at once bewildering and alluring—is intended to speak to today’s viewer, especially to those who are sensitive to social uncertainty. My painting does not offer comfortable answers—yet precisely through this, I try to open a space for inner movements and questions. I would like the viewer not only to examine who they were as a child, but also who they might become in a world where play is no longer merely entertainment, but perhaps one of the last places where identity can find a hold.
Exhibition opening by: Dr. Ágnes Szokolszky, psychologist
The exhibition is on view from 08.12.2025 to 16.01.2026 during gallery opening hours.
1st floor of the Klauzál Square Market Hall.