Ildikó Felicides At Every Step   Exhibition is opened by Károly Kincses, photomuseologist Curator: Gabriella Csizel Open to the public: 15. May – 28. June 2009. Every weekdays: 14.00 – 19.00 Weekend: 11.00 – 19.00

just existing
I exist...
snow flitting down
Kobayashi Issa, 1805

If you would rather meet silence, if you’d rather have a short rest, to calm down unnoticed in the midst of the confusion of this overstrung world, please go and see Ildikó Felicides’ exhibition At Every Step. By rest I do not mean having an easy time, I mean an understanding of the strength of rumination, with the surprise of a revelation, a healthy urge to hunt for the meanings of vanishing lights and shades, a kind of thinking.

This confession relates the joy of being on the road, searching and finding, discovering volatile experiences, and the pain of absence. We observe the magic by which hidden correlations and photographic paper with the help of composition give birth to meaning, showing the way simple things become part of a fable.

This exhibition offers not only photographs, but haikus as well. The relationship of image and poetry results in new meanings, not possible without the presence of both media. By joining their effects, they either enhance or surprise or deepen each other’s meanings, emotional or spiritual contents.

If you open the door to the gallery and enter the world of photographs and haikus, you do not only face an exhibition, but have a chance to steal a glance into the interior of things, into the depths. Well, if you can still understand silence.

Gabriella Csizek, curator

The 19 photographs on show were shot between 1998 and 2008
Technique: archive pigment print
I would like to thank Erzsébet Sárközi for the editing the haikus.

Ildikó Felicides

2008
The founding, organization and leading of “Lab4art” analogue and digital photo-workshop.
2006
Tracking analogue techniques – the masters and crafts of still existing and working manual photo-labors. A research project funded by National Cultural Heritage Fund.
2005
Archive Photographic Processes. Workshop by Gábor Kerekes.
Alternative black and white labtechniques. Workshop by Magdi Vékás
Historical Research for Photographical Techniques in Hungarian Museum of Photography, Kecskemét
Color-management workshop, Macacademy, Budapest
2004
Darkroom: an own black and white manual lab
2002-2004
Kokopelli Professional Black and White Custom Lab
2001-2002
Toronto, Canada. Lab study workshops with André Laredo, D-Max, Bob Carnie, Lensfire
2001
Diploma in Photoshop from Macacademy, Budapest
1997-2001
De-Max (Later: Max Photographic Lab) – professional custom printer with a specialization in Black and White Photography
1998-99
“Art and Craft” Advanced Course led by Gábor Kerekes and György Stalter photographers
1992-94
Attending the “school literary and debating society” of Zoltán Hajtmanszky (photographer) and Edit Kiss (painter)
1993
Diploma as a photographer from Práter Street Trade School
1989
Diploma from the Literature and Library Faculty of ELTE Teacher Training School

Exhibitions:
2001 “Ének” Nyitott Mûhely Gallery

Group Exhibitions:
2000 XII Photographical Biennale in Eszttergom “Camera Obscura”
1998 XI. Photographical Biennale in Eszttergom “Manu Propria” An Award from EMI Mérnökiroda