Artist
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Enikő Hodosy
Her interest lies on connections between body, soul and spirit. She focuses on social and psychological issues, their brutality and beauty, which she represents through an ethereal and intimate atmosphere.
She obtained a master’s degree in Photography at Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in 2016. In 2013, she spent a semester in Brussels with Erasmus, later, she completed her mandatory internship in Paris with Erasmus+.
In 2013 she was selected to the top 100 of Google Photography Prize. In 2014 she won a grant to organise her first solo exhibition titled Bleu, which took place at Gallery Várfok Project Room, Budapest. In 2015 her series Animalia Variabilis was shortlisted at the 5th World Biennal of Student Photography, Novi Sad.
In recent years, her photos gained exposure in various places including the Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art Budapest, the Mai Manó House, the Vienna Photobook Festival, the Berlin Photobook Festival, the Mark Grosset Prize, Vendôme, the Kiscell Museum , and the Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center and der Grief magazine.
She is a member since 2012, and a board member since 2020, of the Studio of Young Photographers. She lives and works in Budapest, Hungary.
Bleu
My main question was, while I was working on the series Blue, was how can I make the viewer feel distant from the reality. To reach this impression, I started to work with the technical tools of taking photographs with flash lights. Most of my pictures I took are night-life scenes with a basically strange milieu. The foregrounds of these photos became clearly and sharply lightened by flash, but the backgrounds stay almost fully in darkness,
The pictures are dealing with the theatrical sets, and nearly surrealistic atmospheres. As the shots are similar to movie stills, they can also be read as variant narrative lines with different interpretations.
The photographs have a typical (blue) cold tone, that reflects on the strangeness, the scenicallity and the artificality. The title of the series deals with the different meanings of the English 'blue' and the French 'bleu', which are parallel to the various readings of my work.
Animalia Variabilis
The series was inspired by genetic mutations: how DNA code transformation can deform living creatures. To visualize this process I used stuffed animals exposed with the help of a scanner. By using this technique the animals are put in a picturesque lighting, which makes them seem alive. Due to the long exposure processing, fine visual glitches appear on the bodies, considered as a possible visual interpretation of genetic mutations. The specks of dust around the bodies are the dust of the living material of the creatures, and as such carry the entire genetic material.
Invisible-you
The series starts from a personal story, I'm examining how body-soul-and mind injuries are interdependent and interconnected can be. My interest was lying in how to portray mental injuries and visualize an internal elusive state. I study the extent to which introspection draws general lessons that affect us all. How individual and social injuries rhyme. How fragmentation or deficiency turn into a story perhaps into history and creates information surplus. What does the decline of civilization say about individual suffering, how does it manifest in the soul of the individual.
To express this, I started out with scars and bruises which could represent an allegory of wounds in the soul. The base content, containing photos about bruises, is being supplemented by additional pictures from my photo diary. Furthermore, the thread of thought is being extended both in time and space by cultural and art historical references. The result is an atmospheric set that induces association and interprets the concept based on different aspects. By this, beyond the personal level, a more general message is also being formulated. An important part of the series is that it doesn’t uncover the infliction of pain. It remains on the level of visual implication, focusing the meaning on the soul.
The five artists selected:
Márton Mónus is a freelance photojournalist who explores socially sensitive topics from the classic documentary perspective of the silent observer. In his images, he demonstrates patience, authenticity, and empathy for those he is photographing. It is his intention to show what is happening first-hand on the ground and leave room for interpretation.
Enikő Hodosy has previously revealed human sensibilities through the careful observation of external signs, but in her recent series, she focuses primarily inward and tries to transform the inner images of self-healing and meditation into poetic still lifes. A sensitive, talented, young artist facing a promising future experiences extreme impulses.
Zsófia Sivák was born in the village of Kerecsenden, Heves County, in the northeastern part of Hungary. She knows rural life as her own, and looks at it with that
knowledge, rather than with the wandering gaze of a stranger. She never crosses the boundaries of authentic documentarism: while her strong opinions offer an intimate
insight, she does not interfere with reality in her pictures. She earns the trust of her subjects with good reason, and she never wavers from it.
Kincső Bede has everything that the word ‘futures’ implies. Despite the unpredictability of the future, it is strength and enthusiasm that she brings to her projects with incredible determination. Self-critical, she recognizes her own limitations, yet she is also extremely trusting of her intuition, which makes her work highly emotional. The future is indeed uncertain, but Kincső Bede always approaches her chosen subjects with courage, authenticity, and substance.
Anyone who chooses to work with an analog technique, compose in a viewfinder or work with a given number of images must have a high level of professional knowledge, concentration, and a clearly defined idea. András Zoltai works with analog technology. As a documentary photojournalist, he is constantly looking for socially sensitive topics, human stories. During the post-Soviet period, he produced the series The Chance - Post-Soviet Sports Heritage in Armenia, which shows the fate of athletes in the margins of society. The dilapidated facilities and old-fashioned training methods take us back to the past. His photographs demonstrate a high level of social sensitivity and a deep sense of communal responsibility. As an artist, he believes in the power of images, in his duty to show the photographs to the public.