Finissage – Júlia Vécsei: Experimental Break

Júlia Vécsei's latest solo exhibition at Kisterem focuses on a fairytale world and its stories. The watercolour on paper paintings show floating situations - buildings, installations, plants, and translucent yellow figures in between. Some details of the magical scenes appear several times, creating associative stories as variations of each other. As in Lajos Gulácsy's Na'Conxypán, this dream-like world is for Vécsei a representation of desolation and the exit from reality. The experiences of the last three years, the unpredictability and isolation, led Vécsei to begin working on a series of indigo drawings (Closed Spaces, 2021-2022), which dealt with the limitation of communication and the anxiety caused by the situation. After this series of monotonous, repetitive work, she created a much more intuitive, detached world in the Experimental Break series, many of whose elements were inspired by Vécsei's dreams.

In addition to the drawings, the exhibition includes three curtains that refer to the time spent within the walls of "home". While the curtains, painted in yellow and blue, refer to the alternation of day and night, the third curtain shows a circle of squares as the rising sun, a whole of parts, a symbol of circulation and belonging.

The exhibition is on view: 5 May – 2 June 2023

The event will be audio and video recorded.