Csilla Szilágyi & Tamás Herczeg | Transfuse | PANEL Contemporary

group exhibition

TRANSFUSE

Csilla Szilágyi & Tamás Herczeg An encounter between glass and concrete — the airy and the heavy. When we think of concrete, we might associate it with qualities such as rough, heavy and solid, while glass with transparent, light, airy and fragile. It is on this striking contrast that Csilla Szilágyi’s works are based. She uses the two materials to create objects in which these characteristics merge subtly into a harmonious whole. Using these sculptures as a starting point, Tamás Herczeg brings them to life with light. The lights sometimes highlight, sometimes hide elements of the sculptures, and sometimes create a completely new work beyond the sculptures, adding an extra element to the encounter of opposites. Playful lights are easily transformed in the glass, while the concrete resists them, not letting them penetrate its surface, but allowing them to spread over it, further softening and taming the works. The installations take their final form through the collaboration of the two artists. Formation of plants, organic-geometric shifting of shapes, the cross- section of plant fibres and the flow of nourishing substances stand at the heart of the sculptures presented at the exhibition. The installation shows the effects of patterns that appear in space and transform space. On the surface of the glass discs, plant sections are lined up, one after the other. Each layer is individually illuminated, with the LED lighting program highlighting the changing elements of the pattern. This visual world hints at the workings of inner psychological patterns, as systems of behaviour and thinking inherited from our parents appear in various ways in different situations. This piece may also allude to a family tree, its growing trunk, in which light flows like the life-giving sap in the fibres of a plant. The trunk of the tree is permeated by light. The healing of inherited transgenerational trauma is very important, and the way to do this is through spirituality, i.e. through self-discovery. The repetitions ofpatterns iterate from generation to generation, with each iteration bringing about a little change, growth or shrinking, just as we ourselves evolve. The sense of healing, of unblocking, is like the sun coming out on a gloomy morning: the path becomes clear again, the right answer to questions shines out, light heals. The two artists have exhibited their work together several times on the Hungarian and international light art scene.