ANDREA SZTOJÁNOVITS & GERGELY ÁLMOS

Andrea Sztovánovits has been working on real-time audiovisual installations since 2001, she got her Doctorate Degree in 2019 at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts with her dissertation ‘VJing as a method’. Besides her creative work, she is a lecturer at the Intermedia department of the Hungarian University of Fine Arts. Her main educational and research fields are visual-musical trends and the analysis of sound-based images.

Gergely Álmos is an architect who won the European Prize for Architecture, but his name might sound familiar on the field of music as well. As music composer and producer, coming from the Sonar Kollektiv label in Berlin, he is the creator of an internationally known music project, mïus. Besides composing, he is the art director and founder of the Budapest-based music label Théque Records.

FÉSZEK 2.0

• 2021

• 2:37

• audiovisual video artwork

Animation: Andrea SZTOJÁNOVITS

Music: Gergely ÁLMOS

Special thanks to SZENDEFF Dániel

The sacrality and scientific understanding of the world meet ancient folk wisdom, offering insight into the sacred mystery of creation and life. NEST in its initial and extended form is presented as a symbol of the fullness and complexity of life.

In human symbolism, nest is a welcoming, safe space where we receive love and nourishment, just as in the womb. In Christian symbolism, it is linked to Paradise as the nest of the Pelican (Christ), in Buddhism it represents nirvana, and the phoenix links it to resurrection and rebirth.

Our association can take us from the nest to the magnified image of an atom to a galaxy, or maybe to the totality of our vast world, to the boundaries of the universe. Along this trail, deep in our consciousness, an ancient truth may be revealed. What is outside is really inside. In every tiny part there is the whole, like a drop in the ocean. Like a hologram.