ARTIST PROFILE

Szabolcs KissPál

  • Romania (b. 1967 in Tg.-mures (marosvásárhely))
  • Currently in Budapest, Hungary.
  • Szabolcs KissPál works in various media from photography to video, from installation to objects and conceptual interventions. His main field of interest is the intersection of new media, visual arts and social issues.
From Fake Mountains to Faith (Hungarian trilogy) - installation

From Fake Mountains to Faith (Hungarian trilogy) - installation

  • 2016
  • 2 HD video projections, 3 flat screens with 5 videos, 11 vitrines with 70 objects and 10 small videos inside, 45 pcs of A3 document prints on the walls.

  • Kostka Gallery installation, Prague 2017.

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    From Fake Mountains to Faith (Hungarian Trilogy) I. | 2016

◼︎ The installation consists of three parts: Amorous Geography (HD video, sound 17 min), The Rise of The Fallen Feather (HD video, sound, 19 min) and Chasm Records (installation with 70 objects, 10 videos and 45 documentation pages). ◼︎ All three parts are docu-fictions, which reveal the political formation of the nation, a process, which is being completed in the present days Hungarian society. The project identifies the two main constitutive elements of the national becoming: the political religion as a tool, and the exclusion from the collective memory as an objective. ◼︎ The three parts analyzes the topics of political landscape, political symbolism and political religion.