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Eye to Eye
A group exhibition organized by the Lodz Art Center and the Lumen Photography Foundation
12 January- 2 February 2007
Opening: 24 January 2007, 8 p.m

Exhibiters:
Zsolt Fekete: Artless environments , photo
Miklós Mécs : A central-east European in East-Central Europe, video
Weronika Łodzińska-Duda & Andrzej Kramarz : A 1, 62 m2 home, photo

(Weronika Łodzińska-Duda & Andrzej Kramarz : 1,62m2 home)

The exhibition Eye to Eye also serves as an appeal to young artists from Hungary and Poland to engage with their artworks in social questions more freely and openly. The photo/video-works shown have one thing in common: they all engage in the tragically growing problem of homelessness.

The restructuring of our societies, changes in our value systems have had a contradictive influence on the development of artworks in the past 10-15 years, both in a Hungary and Poland. While the medium of photography and video is capable to directly record social changes and at the same time to promote it to a wider public, these inherent possibilities remained unexploited – the photo/video–artist turned inside, he/she is defining the world and his/her position in it from the closest possible environment.

Due the fast transition, for part of the population this era has meant the awaited comfort and prosperity, while many were left only with despair and existential struggle. Artist, similarly to other members of society, are insecure, they don’t dare to take a stand in matters, which even are inevitably present in their closest surroundings.

Therefore we are trying to present those, who are exceptions, who confront the above phenomenon by intervening in and presenting severe social injustice, and who point out the insufficiencies / fallacies of infrastructures developed for its prevention / termination.

We hope this program to really be an appeal, thereby becoming a step in a longer  process. Our long-term goal is to enhance and promote artistic activism in our countries, to call attention to that it can have an important roll in the society in fast and continuous transition.  

The program was organised in collaboration with the Lodz Art Center - www.lodzartcenter.com

supported by the Polish Institute Hungary: