Judit Horváth M Simulacrum “Tale is the Daughter of Imagination, and Dreams are her Sisters” Opening remarks by Péter György Curator: Károly Kincses. Open to the public: 13. March - 26. April 2009. Every weekdays: 14.00 – 19.00 Weekend: 11.00 – 19.00
Simulacrum · Judit Horváth M.

“The collecting of items is an important dimension of human existence. Collected items create a structured reality, in which they are real and imaginary at the same time, just like dreams and art.”

/Baudrillard/

Simulacrum

“Tale is the Daughter of Imagination, and Dreams are her Sisters”

Since humans roam the face of earth, their elemental necessity and task is to search for the meaning of life. We keep asking questions to help ourselves find our place in the world, as if forgot the questions already answered earlier. As adults we witness the tapering of our naïve associational capability, with which we could get into touch with the hidden dimensions of the world, and we loose our capacity for freedom of constant changing, thinking and creative thinking.

Tale is the original form of the search for the meaning of life. It is not a product of literacy, it has a more fundamental connection to humanity. It is universal, for it draws its subjects from the everyday experience, but it alloys them with fantasy and the products of imagination. Tale is miracle, wonder, the world of walls torn down, where the borders of human knowledge blur, an allegory that looks for certain meanings to apply to reason, and an allegory, the meaning of which is not only lost, but cannot ever be found, a series of meanings incomprehensible with the grasp of everyday mind. Tales stress the incidental quality of life, but it is not the incidence of everyday life, it means that the whole of existence is incidental. Real elements merge with transcendental elements, it not only communicates with transcendence, it encompasses it. In our collective subconscious there are archetypical characters programmed. Tales always include a pattern that can be applied to everyone’s subconscious, activating a kind of understanding more instinctive, more spiritual. Tales are able to provoke deep emotions, it is similar to dreams in their effects.

According to Jung, dreams are the most easily accessible expressions of subconscious processes, almost as if it was a pure language of the subconscious, presenting collective subconscious processes on the language of symbolic pictures. Just as with dreams, the Other World of tales is made up of archetypical myths, without a coherent logic, offering a key to a deeper understanding. We can catch a glimpse of ourselves through them, discover our innermost fears, and get rid of them this way.
We realize our reality - the one we inhabit is not the only possible reality. We become capable of a different seeing, and our confinement perceived as given before, ceases to be a prison.

As a consequence of my origins, my spiritual constitution, and my sex, Reality and Fable are closely connected in my mind; the thin line between them is easily trespassable. I easily communicate between the two, and this dual state of being is the suspense that gives birth to my pictures.
Magic, the capacity to alter reality, begins with collecting: my objects surround me, we live together for years, and a singular, private relation develops between us. Then once, the day comes when the picture living inside me jumps out to the world suddenly and uncontrollably. In my pictures, the representations of the imaginary life of my characters are surrounded by the desires and elements of my real life. By the exclusion of reality, and the representation of an alternative world, I create the possibility of leaving and entering, the possibility of identification with something else.
I create opportunity to gain knowledge about the unknown, gain insight to the world of my creation, characteristic of me, hoping to provoke emotional associations, surprise and recognition in my audience.

There are two different worlds: the world of the receiver and the world of the artwork. These two worlds are in close connection with each other. The receiver has a set of preconceptions, emotions and suspicions, which he or she would build into his or her interpretation of the actual artwork unwillingly. A dialogue begins between the artwork and the receiver.

If there were no Tales, our fantasy, our imagination could not develop. Without tales, we are closed into our own world; Tale is virtually a key to a deeper understanding.

Judit Horváth M.

photo: Róbert Kassay