International Contemporary Artcolony Cered (H) – Sculptor’s House – 2024.
The installation Wunderkammer was created in collaboration and dialogue between two authors, Jozef Suchoža and Eszter Palik, as a conceptual envirionment. The dialogue was about the male-female relationship in today’s society and its stereotypes and function. Some of the works in the installation were created using the classic strategy of sculpture-object and manipulated ready-made. Everyday objects have been transformed and given new contexts and new meaning.
The works of art were largely created for the Sculptor’s House in Artcolony Cered. The common idea of the sculpture house becoming a large Wunderkammer developed slowly, as it went along. Along the way, creative responses, reactions to each other’s works in the making, were created. Or they were placed in the right place, next to their counterparts, during the installation. My own starting concept or idea came from my understanding of the Wunderkammer. What can be so special today that it should be collected, or included in a list-like collection? Today, when there are almost no white spots on earth and you can go anywhere? So I thought there was more justification for imitation, something that looks special but isn’t. Or the appearance of being special is masking some other content. While we’re on the subject of Cered, what’s here that can be put in a display case from here? What if everything is really about humanity, about human emotions?
