“Landscapes are created by looking at nature, organising it into a unified whole, and then giving it meaning by projecting our own cultural codes onto it. Hence, we often see it as opposed to our world, as something we are outside of. But it is precisely because of this distance that it can take on meaning and act as a mediating medium. It envelops nature, obscures it and thus makes it indirectly legible, while transmitting to us - albeit filtered - information from the non-human world. Images of landscape, on the other hand, have a much more passive relationship, and can be interpreted more as ideological recordings of nature. Frozen moments, memories of the landscape that once lived. Yet, landscape imagery still has a place today, when the dualistic understanding of the relationship between the natural and human world is increasingly challenged. The works of Júlia Csapó and Domonkos Tamás Németh reveal the complex relationship between nature, landscape and human beings. By focusing on the pictorial aspects of the images, the works function as signifiers that point to their own embeddedness in the ever-unfolding sea of simulacra of landscape. In the exhibition, the problem of perception and interpretation is explored by penetrating beneath the skin of the landscape, sometimes revealing the naked nature that throws off the landscape in a weird strangeness, sometimes in a magical, presymbolic exuberance.”

- Dániel Kustra