Drifting
Horizont Gallery•Nov 27, 2024 — Dec 20, 2024
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In motorsports, “drifting” refers to a driving technique where the driver deliberately oversteers, causing the rear wheels to lose traction while maintaining control of the vehicle.
Attila Pálfalusi’s installation captures an infinite moment balancing between the state of control and being out of control represented by fifteen side mirrors rotating around suspension points.
The installation draws attention from the vehicle — the actual means of movement — to reflection, to the reality that can be experienced in a state of change. A simultaneous examination of the continuous future and continuous past within the finite present.
Looking into the mirror, we can discover other mirrors, each locked in the act of losing control. Drifting independently in their unique orbits, determined by their own speeds, creating an interconnected system of reflections in a fleeting moment. This system, which reappears and disappears again, can also be seen as an attempt to make...More
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Drifting
Horizont Gallery•Nov 27, 2024 — Dec 20, 2024
Press release
In motorsports, “drifting” refers to a driving technique where the driver deliberately oversteers, causing the rear wheels to lose traction while maintaining control of the vehicle.
Attila Pálfalusi’s installation captures an infinite moment balancing between the state of control and being out of control represented by fifteen side mirrors rotating around suspension points.
The installation draws attention from the vehicle — the actual means of movement — to reflection, to the reality that can be experienced in a state of change. A simultaneous examination of the continuous future and continuous past within the finite present.
Looking into the mirror, we can discover other mirrors, each locked in the act of losing control. Drifting independently in their unique orbits, determined by their own speeds, creating an interconnected system of reflections in a fleeting moment. This system, which reappears and disappears again, can also be seen as an attempt to make...More