ARTIST PROFILE
- Hungary (b. 1989 in Szentendre)
- Currently in Budapest, Hungary.
- Benedek Regős is a Budapest-based visual artist and photographer.
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The Object of Gratitude
- 2014
- inkjet prints
The habit of votive offerings is mostly connected to folk traditions and represent a significant social and religious phenomenon in almost every culture. Like monuments, they represent and preserve an abstract sense for eternity in physical man-made form.
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Leopold Bloom / works to be shown in foreign exhibition | 2014
The series "The Object of Gratitude" deals with phenomenon of "ex voto" cult. “Ex votos” or votive offerings are usually offered or given to a saint or a divinity in gratitude or in a fulfillment of a vow. This habit is mostly connected to folk traditions and represents a significant social and religious phenomenon in most cultures. Almost everything can serve as votive object, which in this form gets symbolic meaning. "Ex votos", like monuments, represent and preserve an abstract sense for eternity in a physical man-made form.