Seki  (mutual alive)                          Kunsthalle   Budapest, Hu

Seki (mutual alive)         installation   (paper, aquarell, pencil, canvas, aqrilic, table, beans, text)         4000 X 2500 cm          Kunsthalle, Budapest      2020

Text on the wall belongs to the installation:

One of a strategic moment of a Go game called Seki, which was translated to English as mutual life. Go is a game originating from China more than 4.000 years old and is played with black and white disk, and called the game of life and death.

The Seki situation is a kind of symbiosis, a stalemate when neither of the two surviving can win, no one can move on without dying, but no one can kill the other, and on the same way they stay alive and remain free (share liberties).

The theme of the exhibition, the shadow, draws attention to the opposites of our life. Shadow, like the contrast of light has culturally negative connotation. But light does not exist without shadow, nor body, because this draws the body of any object, in the form of self-shadow and its shade.

My work points out that these two are not only complementary, but their value is often interchanged, reverse, they questioning each other, however as can be supplement.

Beans, a meal of the the peasant culture are under the sophisticated snow white table. Yet, this graces it like some pearls, right as the black-sprayed beans have a white shimmering shadow on the canvases. Beautiful and ugly, black and white, good and bad, and infinitely many pairs of opposites which has values only thrue on the judgment. This evaluation with every aspect can be changed at any moment, so the judgment is meaningless.

In the installation the only color image is a drawing of life-sized, colorful, real beans.

minden jog fenntartva © Babinszky Csilla

/ detail /

A man meets to a Transylvanian shepherd who has black and white sheep.

– Have a nice day, brother!

   Can I ask which sheep give you good milk?

– Well, the blaks.

– And whites, don’t?

– Yes, they also.

– Then which wool is good? White or black?

– The white.

– The black isn’t?

– Yes, they also.

– And which sheep do you like better, blacks or whites?

– The blacks.

– The whites don’t you?

– Yes, I do too.