Hajnal Németh

Chance

Object installation, plexi and foil, guitar case, 2008

“Chance” is a very simple juxtaposition: a guitar case propped against the wall and the “It’s just a question of time” / Depeche Mode, 1986 / sentence propped against the wall, mutually referring to each other. The guitar case – empty or not –, “left to relax” like this, is by all means in a transitional state, but the declaration fixes the object’s position, rendering it it’s own statue: precisely by warning of its temporariness does it extract the object from time.

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Exhibition view: Stúdió Galéria, Budapest

Photo: Balázs Beöthy