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GLOBAL CRISIS, LOCAL RELATIONSHIPS, 2022
Group Exhibition
Budapest
Date
05/05/2022-05/08/2022
Easttopics Gallery
Easttopics is dedicated to the promotion of the Eastern European contemporary art field, acting as a dynamic platform that fosters connections, exchanges and cooperations on a local, regional, and international level. Working as a think tank for the Eastern European art communities, Easttopics is a genuinely interdisciplinary cooperative whose goal is to bring the Eastern contemporary art field and the international art scene closer to each other. This cross-border project started as an expanding on-line website and database featuring artists, institutions and publications from Eastern Europe. Our activities now include running a region-specific library, publishing and hosting international residency programmes for curators and artists. Stepping out from the online world we opened our exhibition space, Easttopics Gallery.
Easttopics was imagined and is developed by Fruzsina Kígyós, Róna Kopeczky, Alexandra Nagy
In recent times, the role and place of art has been redefined, so the exhibition series entitled Global Crises, Local Relationships aims to bring the youngest generation of regional artists into the picture, not only by creating a context, but also by organizing a generational group exhibition. Organised in two sections, the exhibition explores the latest contemporary positions, focusing on personal narratives re-contextualised through collective crisis, and on the diverse relationships with our environment. The exhibition aims to highlight the importance of maintaining and sharing different forms of knowledge, which forces us to rethink our ideas about the future.
The Global Crises, Local Relationships focuses on artists who use the story form in contemporary art as a means of comprehending and conveying political and social events. Significantly, unlike their postmodern predecessors, the artists in Global Crises, Local Relationships neither take the idea of documentary truth as an object of their critique nor do they abandon fact for fabulation. Rather, they enable individuals—whether themselves, their subjects or their audience—to construct the story of their unique participation in historical processes.
Responding to the rapid, often violent transformations of the 21st century, contemporary artists have displayed a growing desire to activate art’s documentary capacity, its ability to bear witness to events in the world. All of the works in The Global Crises, Local Relationships revolve around situations that are either in the process of unfolding or that continue to impact the lives of the artists or protagonists. However, in each case, these events are re-imagined and thereby re-experienced through the artist’s personal encounter or the character’s narration. For the artists in the exhibition, the story functions neither as a purely imagined narrative nor as a piece of verifiable information. Rather, it is a document of a different sort, one whose focus is less empirical accuracy than the reality of events as they are encountered, experienced and delivered by a thinking, receiving subject and an active listener. The story is at once temporal and personal, public and communal. It persists through the listener’s interpretive process and through each subsequent retelling.
The Global Crises, Local Relationships includes artists working in video, photography, painting, mixed media and installation: all media that lend themselves to a documentary approach. Although the featured artists have enjoyed a degree of critical attention, none has yet received serious consideration for the role that storytelling plays in his or her work.
Exhibited artists: Szilvia BOLLA, Fruzsina KISS, Barna PÉLI
Curator: Fruzsina KIGYÓS
