Andrea Katalin Gulyás | Fragile stability

solo exhibition

Andrea Katalin Gulyás's works are generally characterized by the idea of analysis-synthesis, breaking something down into its elements (whether on a theoretical or physical level), and then putting it together according to a new system, which leads us to an upside-down reality. Her works often present everyday objects, transferring them to a more sacred existence, to which she applies the term “everyday metaphysics”. Beyond surrealism, her works conceal human feelings, states and aspirations, which she conveys to her audience in the form of symbolic visual languages. This is no different in her current exhibition entitled Fragile Stability. Almost all of the exhibited works process porcelain as a utilitarian object in some form.

These works can also be understood as a kind of recycling. She gives broken, cracked or devalued porcelain a completely new meaning, since they have been deprived of their original functions. This is why an almost beetle-shaped object can be created in the universe of Andrea Katalin Gulyás, which is made up of pieces of jugs and mugs. This kind of redefinition also occurs in her paintings, where the usual, engraved schemes are reinterpreted through associations. The patterns also behave differently than we would think, "floating" from porcelain or reappearing on unusual, household surfaces - for example, on a dishwashing detergent bottle.

In Andrea Katalin Gulyás' exhibition Fragile Stability, parallel dimensions meet and lead us to a reality where we revalue our own individual reality through the objects that surround us in everyday life, stripped of their function.