Hope Chest: Traditionally in the form of a wooden trunk or box, contained the dowry of a young woman. The box and its content played an important part not only in the business transaction between two families, but served as a survival kit for the new life a girl was about to enter.
Torpedo factory, 2016, Rijeka, Croatia
The Hope Chest didn’t just contain the objects that would secure a young women’s future but comprised her heritage, her sense of belonging. With this in mind we produced a Hope Chest that traveled from the Old World to the New World and then back again. At each station a group of artist will participate in shaping the content of the Box and therefore the exhibition. With this gesture of sharing and hands-on participation we want to highlight the highly international intellectual exchange within the international Art community, and therefore this exhibition series allows maximum visibility of this inspirational exchange.
Minden városnak vannak olyan nehéz szociális helyzetben élő lakói, akikről a többség keveset tud, vagy a számukra “láthatatlanok”. Budapesten a Gubacsi út és az Illatos út által körülhatárolt terület, egy olyan fizikai- és társadalmi szempontból is elszigetelt városrész, amelynek a története, egykori lakóinak élete kevéssé él a köztudatban.
A város peremén című interaktív városi emlékezetkutatás a Dzsumbuj történetét és élményanyagait dolgozza fel mélyinterjúk, film- és fotódokumentációk, illetve közösségi programok formájában. A kutatócsapat hajdani lakókkal és helyi szervezetek munkatársaival dolgozik együtt a közösségi események és egy weboldal létrehozásán.
Szeretnénk, ha nem merülne feledésbe az egykori Dzsumbuj, minél többen megismernék a több mint hét évtizedig fennálló telep történetét. Célunk, hogy a volt lakók életének részletes bemutatásával – több esetben a részvételükkel –, a személyes történeteik révén is feleleveníthessük a Dzsumbuj mindennapjait.
The International Summerschool of Fine Arts and Media | Venice is grounded in the tradition of Black Mountain College and Robert Wilson’s Watermill Center.
Our interdisciplinary approach welcomes students of all skill levels and backgrounds to our idyllic location in Venice, where the school was founded in 2003. The school partners with the Venice Biennale, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection and Francois Pinault’s collection at the Palazzo Grassi and Punta della Dogana.
A kiállítás egy alternatív fotótananyag, egyfajta gyorstalpaló. Példákon keresztül figyelmeztet a képalapú adatokban rejlő hangsúlyok fontosságára. És persze arra is, hogy a tankönyvek hétköznapinak, közérthetőnek gondolt példái hogyan befolyásolják a tanulókat
Részlet a sorozatból:
Önkéntesek, 2015 A Bagázs Egyesület önkéntesei a bagi szegregátum területén létrehozott fejlesztő központ kerítését építik.
Ép testben ép lélek, 2016
Keep calm, 2016 A Keep Calm and Carry On posztert a brit kormány gyártotta 1939-ben, hogy morálisan is felkészítse a lakosságot a második világháborúra. 2000-ben Stuart Manley egy könyvesboltban talált rá egy eredeti "Keep Calm and Carry On" példányra. Innentől kezdve vált a poszter olyan inspiráló üzenetté, mely a múlt és a jelen krízishelyzeteit köti össze. Népszerűsége a mai napig töretlen és számtalan mém alapjául szolgál.
Az egyik kép Jeruzsálemben készült azon a helyen, ahol pár héttel korábban egy családot támadtak meg 2015 október 3-án. A másik pedig a 2016-os mohácsi busójárás egyik jelenete.
Open: until April 2nd from Tuesdays to Fridays from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. and on Saturdays from 10 a.m. until 1 p.m.
Krisztina Erdei studied philosophy and political theory, which is so apparent in her choice of subjects and in her sensibility toward social issues. Her latest works provide a novel approach to the possibilities of photography. She has chosen a new genre, the animated gif, which is so popular and widespread on the internet but which can open up new possibilities in visual thinking when used as an artistic way of expression. This is what Krisztina Erdei makes use of in her photos exhibited here.
The pictures, which she has converted into animated gifs, are expressive in their own right, but they can be interpreted completely differently when, displayed as a sequence of frames, they turn into stories. The stories presented by the photographer may as well be published as a volume of short stories. But they are not just interesting in themselves as they call our attention to the long-term possibilities of gifs: at the exhibition the works are presented as examples of the disadvantaged state of visual education.
While we are exposed to an ever growing amount of visual information, the majority of people would still prefer math classes to drawing lessons. Even today 30-50-year-old methods are being used when teaching the interpretation of pictures in primary schools. But the exhibition offers a new alternative, a potential teaching aid and warns us of the importance of emphases in visual information.
The Emergency Fund supports experienced photographers with a commitment to documenting social issues, working long-term, and engaging with an issue over time. Projects address critical global issues that have not received the attention they deserve, or budding crises that are still over the horizon. Photographers retain the copyright to their work and distribute it widely: through traditional and new media, in collaboration with nonprofits or NGOs, and on the Emergency Fund website.
Each year, a diverse group of photography professionals nominate 100 professional photographers to submit proposals. An independent Editorial Board selects 10 to 20 photographers—based on the strength of their proposals and the importance of the issues they propose to address—to support.
Krisztina will present photos taken in late August and September at the Hungarian- Serbian border and in the refugee camp in Röszke Hungary. Krisztina Erdei is one of three artists participating in the exhibition " Subjective Female Documentalists "
Moderator: Sylwia Wieczeryńska - Polish Press Agency
22.10.2015, Galeria Arsenal, Białystok
Ex & Post – Eastern Europe Under the Lens takes focus on artistic and photographic practices in the former Communist bloc, surveying the current conditions and recent histories of conflict and socialism through to the transition into capitalist market-driven economies.
Presenting works by 14 artists from across Eastern Europe, the exhibition exposes the implicit variations of a geographical definition that still crystallises symbolic and political frictions.
Particularly focusing on the continuous crisis of individual and collective values, the artists show the implosion of beliefs and principles in private and public contexts, in cities and countryside, in private flats and common grounds, at schools and in working contexts.
Depicting what could be referred to as an Ex & Post condition, the project looks at the residue of trauma from the collapse of socialist systems and how these nations are reconfiguring their cultural identity and the new allegiances at play across Europe and beyond.
Ex & Post has been curated by Sári Stenczer and coordinated by Krisztina Erdei (Photolumen, Budapest) in collaboration with ACP.
The International Summerschool of Fine Arts and Media | Venice is grounded in the tradition of Black Mountain College and Robert Wilson’s Watermill Center.
