installation – fülöp gergő

The Slugs ain’t Messing Around (with Marina Sztefanu)

gergő — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 12:08:59 +0000

The wild carrot seed, as an Angel gleams in the sky. They’re in war. Every one of the assaulting slugs want to bite out a piece from what it simbolizes.

Utilitariansm drives them, which raised the fort. Which sharpened the stakes to defend the sublime, defenseless vegetable-angel. They’re assaulting without an end, having nothing before them, just that fort.

The garden is a fort. It intends to defend everything, that seems beneficial and creates a desert in the process.

The battlefield is made Armageddonic by the utilitarian God of this war.

photos: Barnabás Neogrády-Kiss

at: Hungarian Art and Business, Budapest

A csupaszcsigák nem szórakoznak

A vadmurok magja, mint angyal ragyog az égen. Harcban áll. A rohamozó csupaszcsigák mind ki akarnak harapni egy darabot abból, amit szimbolizál.

A haszonszemlélet hajtja őket, ami az erődöt emelte. Ami kihegyezte a karókat, hogy megvédje a fennséges, védtelen zöldség-angyalt. Vég nélkül rohamoznak, nincs más, csak az emelvény előttük.

A kert erőd. Védelmet szán mindennek, amit hasznosnak vél, és közben sivatagot csinál.

A csateteret ennek a háborúnak haszonszemléletű Istene teszi armageddonivá.

fotók: Neogrády-Kiss Barnabás

helyszín: Hungarian Art and Business, Budapest

János Donnák: Something Inside, 05.04.2023 – 05.05.2023

gergő — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 18:31:46 +0000

Inside I met the inmates (some might know them as the yōkai). Rare acquaintances, vanishing companions. I know some of their residences, stations they left behind during their wanderings, although it is hard to know whether they indeed move on or if they are simply silenced by my presence.

Our relationship is peculiar; sometimes they scare me, other times they show me something. They know the cracks in which they can dissolve, the flashes, the density and scarcity of noises in which they stride. They slip away in the sound of footsteps, in scratches, in the pressure of my body.

As of now, I am once again looking for them.

photos: Gergő Fülöp

Donnák János: Valami bent

Bent a bentlakókkal találkoztam (egyesek yōkai-ként is ismerhetik őket). Ritka ismerősök, eltűnő társak. Ismerem néhány lakhelyüket, vándorlásaik során hátrahagyott állomásaikat. Ámbár nehéz eldönteni, hogy tényleg továbbállnak, vagy jelenlétemre egyszerűen elnémulnak.

Furcsa a kapcsolatunk; néha megijesztenek, máskor megmutatnak valamit. Ismerik a repedéseket, amiben felszívódhatnak, a villanásokat, a hangok sűrűsödését és ritkulását, amiben tempóznak. Elillannak a léptek zajában, a kaparásokban, a testem nyomásában.

Most éppen keresem őket újra.

fotók: Fülöp Gergő

SUNSHINE

gergő — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 10:33:00 +0000

notions, the work revolves around:
-mortality, existence, non-existence, remembrance, resting, happiness, grief, sorrow
Sunshine deals with the seemingly irresolvable question of the need for certainties, when there are none. It came from a childhood memory of mine. I saw an illustrated picture about the Resurrection in a missionary brochure in my grandmothers kitchen: golden light, clean white dresses, cypresses, some kind of citrus odour, unspeakable happiness and relief.
But in my installation I present passing as we know it. With the imagery of Heaven, which is based on human desire, I visualize the unconceivable, but ultimate demise. We can read, like a last word, the text „I am here – and there you are”, meaning that the subject is not in the same place as the viewer (as a matter of fact the subject is not. It is nowhere).
The unconceivable nature of demise affects everyone, and without the explanations of religion, we are alone with the question. Which leaves the subject in a stressed out deadlock when facing it.

„here I am and there you are”

starring: Louis XII de Bretagne, Francis of Assissi, Arnold Böcklin, Pierre Puvis-des-Chavannes, The Wanderer, Wind Turbine

photo credits: Gergely Gangel

composition2

gergő — Tue, 23 Oct 2018 21:00:48 +0000

Is Paradise now, here, or nowhere?

starring: Uta von Ballenstedt, Eckard II, Margrave of Meissen, Roses Gabor, Jesus Christ

composition1

gergő — Tue, 23 Oct 2018 19:10:17 +0000

Can you mourn something that wasn’t even there? Can you mourn a desire? Are thoughts (or desires) there in existence, or are there just the things that happened?

„death of something I never had”

starring: David by Michelangelo, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Naomi Campbell, Napoleon Bonaparte, Kanye West, Boxer of Quirinal, Greyhound