Venue: Tér-Kép Gallery, Budapest

on view: 11.01.2023 – 01.02.2023

curator: Zsófia Kókai

Growth Spurt, which is one of the key works of the exhibition, is also the title of a hand-colored 8mm film, it’s an expression used in infant healthcare, which refers to a sudden process of development. The exhibition places this transformed, intensive state in parallel with dynamic expression of remembrance and (already forgotten) visceral emotions.

  The starting point of the series/collection of works presented at the exhibition is the artist’s self-published workbook from 2014, which was a collection of thoughtflows with graphs connected through loose associations, it was titled Gathering of The Omitted (21 pages, A5 sized, copyprinted art zine)   

This work counts as a basic reference point for the nature of Almásy’s artistic process of the past five years, recurring elements of which are found and self-crafted pictoral elements, and a flow of texts, which is organized by long-stirring raw material held together loosely. 

Ivor Almásy describes the artistic process the following way: „ Through my work I am interested in the affect that personal and familial remembrance has on the present. Family members appear both in the object and film works, as do the cultic personalities and cultural phenomenons represented by them, built into the collective family memory.  I don’t examine the meaning of these elements analitically or concretely, but I intend to constantly process them with replacing again and again them into the pictoral space created by me. This processing becomes possible with facing connectable contetns multiple times rather than direct understanding.”

The object compositions rich in miniature details, the zine, and the titular film are connected with each other through a particular dynamic. The colors and shapes appear as coordinate points, with the connecting of which the same theme appears in a wider frame, showing new correlations…” Going through the color-coordinates and returning connections of shape, the viewer, although as an outsider, can get a thorough view into the dreamlike episodes of a private archive, a personal story and can recollect their own associations, memory-frames onto the surface absorbing the everyday details. 

text: Zsófia Kókai – Ivor Almásy

photos: Kata Linda Kis