ESZTER SZABÓ

Eszter Szabó’s (1989 Budapest, Hungary) works are paintings, animations, and video installations. She is dealing with her own, personal experiences by making observations on the street or everyday life in general. Her themes often revolve around the realities of women. She is interested in the traces of social and political processes that manifest in minor attributes and gestures.

She developed a certain perceptual practice in which, instead of perceiving the extraordinary, she focuses on the ordinary. Observing familiar phenomena also reveals some unseen perspectives. Her works are a combination of both generalization and non-judgmental observation as well as mixing blurred half-truths with razor-sharp details.

Her aquarelles and oils are made with quick gestures over light surfaces with thin layers. Her videos deal with details that happen in seconds. She uses traditional techniques as well as digital media. Recently she’s been mixing 3D animation with digital simulations and experiments with the randomness and glitches generated. She is working on video-sculptures that are compositions of her paintings, drawings, and prints.

EBÉD

• 2023

• video

• 3:00

The Abandoning of the Testicles explores the moment when exhaustion and fatigue transform into anger and action, a moment of revitalization. The artist is interested in the shared experiences of patriarchy and political oppression, situations that can be likened to a frog slowly boiling in water. The video is a fantastical representation of the end of such situations.