PLACES OF MUTUAL OBLIVION
The works, situated at the intersection of naturart and conceptual photography, are set within a completely abandoned built and natural environment, where large-scale industrial agriculture in Hungary has led to an almost entirely deserted landscape of gardens, vineyards, and homesteads. The houses and areas unsuitable for agricultural work (steep terrain, forests, pastures) have been left behind. The owners of the houses and plots have leased the easily cultivable, flat lands to larger farmers, allowing them to seek employment in the city.
While the fields remain under active cultivation, the homesteads slowly merge with nature like abandoned living organisms, completely forgetting those who once created them: sites of mutual forgetting.
In these locations, I leave behind traces that temporarily interrupt the process of forgetting—metaphors of absence that reflect how urbanization manifests itself as a lack within the rural landscape. Alongside natural materials found on site, found objects are often emphasized—like land-art ready-mades—telling stories about the era and the people who once inhabited and shaped these places.