State of Affairs

The exhibition demonstrates possible applications of such a cognitive and observational attitude of the audience and wishes to initiate a discussion about the different levels of expression that architectural or sculptural structures can be used to convey social ideologies on. Is it feasible at all to be completely rid of such influences? What kind of knowledge can we gain about certain social systems from the imprints they leave on buildings and sculptures, or even highway pillars? These are just some of the questions that the exhibited works are seeking an answer to, trying to uncover the network of correlations between space and ideology, from barely perceptible influences on shapes and structures to purposeful appropriation of artistic forms, in such different environments as the American Capitalism of the 1930’s, the miscarried utopia of Communism, the reshaping of a Cubist work of art or recent events on the Hungarian political scene.