ARTIST STATEMENT

“Klára Petra Szabó practices the lifestyle of the contemporary travelling artist as professionally as she practices watercolour painting. This lifestyle, which includes moving from one resident program to the other, is intimately connected to her thematic and stylistic interests.
Szabó Klára Petra looks for interoperability in whatever she does: she is continuously experimenting with the suitability for artistic use of various materials, while also exploring the possible ways of ’intermedializing’ traditional watercolour techniques. This is what made her include the unique possibilities offered by thermo- paints, which become transparent with heat, into her works, and this led her to watercolour- animation as well. Although she often includes the internet and other electronic media in her projects, her whole oeuvre is characterized by a kind of cosy intimacy. Her choice of subject matter is exceedingly personal and her models are usually her close friends, relatives, acquaintances, or even herself. She is most interested in the body:  the „medium” that simultaneously talks about identity, social status and cultural situation. This is precisely why she became interested in the relationship between personal identity and fashion, and this made her „reveal” her own body (and existence) as a meaningful object in her works in a self-examining manner."

Noémi SZABÓ / art historian, curator / Flash Art Hungarian edition