Illustration: Stipan Tadić, 'Super Andrija', 2018

aqb Volunteering
Volunteering period will be from March until May of 2022, to help at the upcoming exhibition “Are you sure you want to leave?”, a selection of the OSTRALE Biennale "Breathturn".
APPLICATION
Deadline: February 27, midnight
OPTIONAL TASKS
We would like volunteers to help throughout the exhibition minimum once a week for 5 hours. Volunteering periods are:
• Exhibition installation, preparation between March 1 - 18
• Art mediation, exhibition guarding between March 19 - May 22
REQUIREMENTS
• Conversational level of Hungarian and English
• Having personal interest in cultural and art related projects
COMPENSATION
• We can provide you with the signing of your school / university documents (if required), along with inviting you to gain a basic insight of the content, preparation and outcome of a Budapest-based international contemporary art exhibition.
ABOUT US
Being an independent cultural institution and a centre of contemporary arts, art quarter budapest hosts a wide diversity of programs. The building complex consists of a broad collective of in-house visual and performance artists and gives home to creative industry companies also. Aqb curates local on-site exhibitions and hosts a residency program for various international creators.
Zsófia KERESZTES
Zsófia Keresztes’ sculptures operate on the threshold of virtuality and reality, speculating how one world extends to the other. Keresztes is interested in the resulting fluid bodies or avatars, shapes shifting, forms collapsing; a body that is mirrored through desire, pain and empathy.
A reoccurring visual motif running throughout Keresztes’ works is a self-damning act of sharing, often expressed on bodies conjoined like Siamese twins. Keresztes’ sculptures are caught in their monumental inter-dependencies, dammed to their desires and bound by rope or chain. The tear shaped drop and sting motif threaded on dyed rope acts for her as a symbol for pain, compassion and empathy simultaneously. The latter are never singled out phenomena, they are being reciprocated and mirrored empathically, since neurologically, the distinction between what one feels and what others feel is not a clear one.
Following the logic of the ambiguity of emotional sensations, Zsófia Keresztes’ sculptures equally are amorphous bodies that bleed and flow into each other. Despite their monumentality, they maintain a moment of fluidity, two protagonist joined or mirrored, caught in an infinite state of negotiations.
The glass mosaics, which has become a signature material for Keresztes, mirror their surrounding and blur the boundaries of interiority and exteriority, where Keresztes’ ambiguous bodies begin and where the negotiations of consumption, defeat and recreation starts.
– Laura Windhager
