Dominika TRAPP: “…like a ring, sliding shut on some quick thing”

“And we, too, had a relationship—

Tight wires between us,

Pegs too deep to uproot, and a mind like a ring

Sliding shut on some quick thing,

The constriction killing me also.”

/Sylvia Plath: The Rabbit Catcher – excerpt

translation by Dezső Tandori/

“(...) the object, the material of the trap, is thus transformed back into a mind, all the more easily because the mind has so often been on the path of transformation into destructive structures; Kafka comes to mind again, his penal colony; and Plath does not hold back: 'The constriction killing me also.'”

/Dezső Tandori: The Hinge of the Shutter/

Through her recent work, Dominika Trapp explores the metaphorical domains of the trap as a dimensional gateway. In the trap, she interprets the agency of the landscape as being dramatically hijacked by man. The imagery captures moments of arming and disarming – the former clearly driven by human intention, the latter as if by other forces.

Opening: 8 June 2023, 6PM

Opening remarks by Miklós Borsik

On view: 9 June – 14 July 2023

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