Dissolving the Rules of Play / solo exhibition:
Venue: K.A.S Gallery, Budapest
on view: May 9, 2019 – May 26, 2019
The exhibition does not present a thematic constellation but can be understood as a display of objects that deal with the theory and practice of play. The main motif is a well-known puzzle game for children, which has been transformed through different reinterpretations, but has preserved its formal recognisability throughout this process in all of its final forms. The aim was to modify or block the systems innate to the game, and simultaneously to load it with unique visual content. Thus by dissolving the rules of play the reorganisibiliy of things is rendered illusory: there is no selected direction or correlation, just different modes of use.
The Dissolving the Rules of Play is a 12-piece ensemble of a logical puzzle made of gypsum. The cast being static makes it impossible to use it in the regular way, however it highlights sections of the originally moving system and gives the artwork a snapshots-like characteristic. The experimental background of the work was compiled from a series of castings of the same size and number as the current one during a study trip to Rome (RAT Rome, 2018). I attached the process of outsourcing the site-specific work to one of my experimental films, shot on 8 mm (Dawdling I, 2018). While the prototype focused on the event and the venue, the improved studio piece is panel painting-like. Objects made of gypsum carry traces in two ways: directly on the surface of the solidified gypsum or cast in plaster, the castings appear on paper or parchment. From a technical point of view, these two methods are suitable for reproduction: I was interested in the similarity of casting and printing and the merger of the two processes.
