Anna Fabricius’ first solo exhibition at TOBE Gallery in Budapest.

Anna Fabricius: A Hundred Words and Seven Things
2 March - 2 April, 2022
TOBE Gallery, Budapest

”Language perforates thinking, so that we can only think of what is given, within the systems of language.”
Anna Fabricius' exhibition A Hundred Words and Seven Things questions the above assumption and experience. The artist’s new series plays with the mutual interaction of known and unknown words, meanings, associations, notions and images. Her child learning to speak provided the inspiration behind her approach. Parents, like their children, try to interpret what they hear and to fit that into the framework of their own reality. Fabricius often employs texts to complement her photography, in this series “words” from baby talk, which she translates into visuality,
Through her meticulously composed photographies and the gesture drawings that overwrite her landscapes Fabricius explores novel aesthetic qualities, which come through as philosophical, sensitive and personal. The large-scale picture duo entitled Working Mum and Brave Dad offers a framework for the expanse of the verbal and visual freedom of the exhibition.
1 Ágnes Nemes-Nagy: Word and Wordlessness (1975)

 

Anna Fabricius (1980, Budapest) received her doctoral degree DLA in 2015 as a media artist at the Moholy-Nagy University of Arts and Design MOME in Budapest. Her works have been presented in local and foreign exhibitions, institutions and photo festivals, such as the Ludwig Museum in Budapest, the Hungarian National Gallery, PhotoEspaña, Paris Photo, Łódź Fotofestiwal, and the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rijeka. Fabricius is one of the most itinerant Hungarian contemporary artist and a participant in residency programs abroad, she worked at the MQ21 in Vienna in 2012, as RU resident in New York in 2015 and after her stay in Poland in 2016, she spent a period in Taiwan in 2018. In 2021 she participated during the Biennale Ostrale in Dresden as the only Hungarian resident artist. Her photographic series can be found in various Hungarian collections. In 2021, her series titled "Hungarian Standards" was acquired to the permanent collection of the Museum Ludwig in Budapest. Her work has been featured in various publications including The Good Life, BeauxArt Magazine, Fotografisk Tidskrift 6, ParisBerlin, IMAGO and VISION. In her artistic practice, she predominantly explores the concept of group or community, its structure, formation and the role of the individual through her photographic, video and textual works. Anna Fabricius currently lives and works in Budapest, she is a n external lecturer at Moholy-Nagy University of the Arts and Design and is represented by TOBE Gallery since September 2021.