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Nostalgia Factory
Éva Szombat is interested in three things in photography: beauty, desire and memory. To a photography critic, this connection may seem obvious. After all, we all desire beauty and want to keep it for longer, if not forever. However, Szombat presents this photographic triad in a controversial way. Beauty borders on pornography and kitsch, approaching camp. Desire is non-normative, and pansexual energy pulsates in objects, fragments and bodies, whose mutual relations the artist carefully observes. Memory concerns people and relationships, but also oscillates around material culture, quite low-ranking and not very sophisticated. Szombat immerses herself in everyday life to enchant it for her own carefully staged photographs. While working on her subsequent cycles, she transubstantiates what is ordinary into colourful and wonderful. This is also the case in the Echo in Delirium series, in which the artist looks at the nostalgia for the...More
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Nostalgia Factory
Éva Szombat is interested in three things in photography: beauty, desire and memory. To a photography critic, this connection may seem obvious. After all, we all desire beauty and want to keep it for longer, if not forever. However, Szombat presents this photographic triad in a controversial way. Beauty borders on pornography and kitsch, approaching camp. Desire is non-normative, and pansexual energy pulsates in objects, fragments and bodies, whose mutual relations the artist carefully observes. Memory concerns people and relationships, but also oscillates around material culture, quite low-ranking and not very sophisticated. Szombat immerses herself in everyday life to enchant it for her own carefully staged photographs. While working on her subsequent cycles, she transubstantiates what is ordinary into colourful and wonderful. This is also the case in the Echo in Delirium series, in which the artist looks at the nostalgia for the...More
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