Ways of Being – El-Hassan Róza & Lőrincz Réka kiállítása

The exhibition Ways of Being at Institute of Contemporary Art-Dunaújváros brings together two pioneering female artists united by method, ethics, and friendship: Hungarian artist Réka Lőrincz and Hungarian-Syrian artist Róza El-Hassan, whose practices treat artistic process as inseparable from lived political and emotional realities.

Bringing together earlier works with several new pieces created especially for the exhibition — including works on paper and canvas, collage, large mixed-media sculpture, and video — Ways of Being foregrounds making not as a fixed, ontologically determined, and self-contained outcome, but as an ongoing, evolving activity. For both artists, process — or simply being — becomes a way of thinking and feeling with others, positioning artistic practice as a shared space of solidarity.

Automatic and intuitive forms of making therefore become political not only as personal release, but as ways of resisting externally imposed, structural and ideological forms of violence. In this context, making opens space for other ways of sensing, relating, and surviving within the current state of global crisis.