KLÁRA KUCHTA

The life and practice of Klára Kuchta, a Hungarian artist living in Geneva, is defined by the experience of marginality resulting from her female existence and the traumas of migration: she was six years old in 1947 when she was deported from Rozsnyó to Budakeszi, twenty years later she fled to Vienna to escape the communist regime, and finally settled in Geneva in 1970. Kuchta used virtuoso weaving techniques to create space throughout his artistic career, which has spanned fifty years, and from the 1970s onwards she made inroads into social space through the medium of hair. Since 1987, her scientific research has led her to create light and kinetic installations, and in the last decade she has been exploring animal behavior in relation to issues of artificial intelligence, drawing on the concept of “Interconnection”. Her works are on display in several European public collections, such as in Pompidou Centre, Paris; Kunstmuseum, Bern; Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Geneva; Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris; Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest; Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest.

JUPITER MON AMOUR

• 1986

• 5:36

• video animation

“Jupiter mon amour” is a video by Hungarian artist Klára Kuchta, based in Geneva. The piece follows the transformation of Jupiter’s connotation from a mythological figure to a subject of NASA’s research. The video features manipulated images using video synthesizer systems with music composed by Kuchta.