ARTIST STATEMENT

As I see, photography is a lonely job. Creating is a lonely thing in a lot of ways.

There is a saying that I heard when I was a child: can’t depend on anyone but yourself. I thought it was true until I found out: I can’t be a loner for a long time. If I need help, I have to do something I was always warned against: trusting people.

It’s similar to psychology. In my opinion, a good photographer is also a psychologist. In particular, we have to be our own psychologist. I go down to the depths of my mind. The camera in my hand helps me with the therapy session. And then I’m also an interpreter. I show the things I cannot say out loud. And I do it gradually. I will only see the next step after the first one.

Photography is my private practice where I am the doctor, the patient and the cure.

BIOGRAPHY

Born in Miskolc in 1989, Zsuzsa Darab graduated from the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest (MOME), in photography BA. In 2012, she obtained a scholarship to study painting and fine art in Denmark. Since 2013, she has been attending to Photography MA at MOME. In 2014, she studied at Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture in Finland under the ERASMUS programme. Recently, she graduated from MOME, in photography MA.

She has been a member of the Hungarian Assocation Of Young Art Photographers since 2011 and the RANDOM - Association Of Contemporary Photographers since 2013. 

Her works are usually conceptual, staged and also experimental. She has already exhibited in the Mai Manó House, the Ludwig Museum and abroad (e.g. Luxembourg, Vienna, Helsinki, Moravská Trebová) as well. In 2013, she participated in the Present Continuous art project at the Mai Manó House, which is an ongoing art programme launched 7 years ago.

As a part of her professional work, she ran several workshops in the DEMO children programme, and she also was a guest teacher in Denmark.