Benedek Regős's solo exhibition at Pince in Budapest.
Benedek Regős: Angle and Distance
22 March – 14 April, 2022
Pince, Budapest
„In a similar way, with a land surveyor you don't walk through a countryside, rather you explore it from the point of view of the triangulation system."
(Petr Rezek: Photographs as choreography)
Benedek Regős' exhibition Angle and Distance I, the first solo presentation of his ongoing project of the same name, attempts to evoke and explore the parallel motifs between surveying, mapping, and the nature of photography.
We have always had the intention to explore and survey the Earth trying to integrate it's otherwise hardly organizable surface into different geometric structures and geographical networks in which reference points and boundaries necessary for our lives can be designated. These systems also provide the framework of land surveying, during which the collected data is transformed into decodable visual signs and maps, so that they can help and influence everyday decisions as coherent and comprehensive information.
This process of abstraction, the thinking in abstract space, is based on Euclidean geometry, which has defined our worldview since ancient times. Angle and distance are two basic types of measurement of this geometry that make it possible to determine the coordinates of any point in space based on the principle of triangulation. Triangulation (and trigonometry in a broader sense) is particularly interesting in the context of photography because, in addition to being the basis of surveying, geodesy (and thus cartography), it also plays an important role in optical imaging. The fact that we rely on maps and photographs as accurate and authentic sources of information in everyday life is essentially due to the direct or indirect geometric nature of their origin.
The exhibited images refer to various aspects of the topic. On the one hand, they reflect on the phases of land surveying and mapping workflows (aims, applied tools, technologies, practices and the person performing them), and on the other hand, on the pictorial output of these efforts, and their mode of action (on the operation of signs and sign systems that transmit data, and on the paradox between the technical imaging that exclude the human factor and the individual decisions behind them).
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Benedek Regős (*1989) is a Budapest-based artist and photographer. He graduated at the Photography MA of Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest in 2017. Previously he studied two semesters at the Photography Studio of the Academy of Art, Architecture & Design (UMPRUM) in Prague in 2016, and got Photography BA degree at the Kaposvár University in 2014. In recent years he has been participated in numerous exhibitions and publications in Hungary and abroad. In 2016 he was awarded the Photographic Fellowship of the Association of Hungarian Photographers. Between 2017 and 2020 he took part in the board of the Studio of Young Photographers Hungary (FFS). In 2021, he participated in two artist-in-residence programs in Salzburg and Lower Austria, as well as in the international artistic exchange Contact Zones in Prague and Leipzig.
