Judit M. Horváth was born in 1952 in Sárvár, a small town west of the Danube, into an assimilated roma family. She fell in love with photography after the works of his husband György Stalter.
For a long time she neglected her cultural background only to become the editor-in-chief of the Roma newspaper Amaro Drom for two years.
She and her husband practically photographed every gypsy slum in Hungary as well as the ghettoized districts of Pest. Their joint album 'Other World' (Más Világ) was published in 1998.
Her works entitled 'Deceptive Appearances (Simulacrum) were published in the album by the same name, and were exhibited for the first time in Mai Manó Ház in 2009. These works were made over the course of nearly ten years and altough were radically different than her previous documetary photography works, still have a lot of similarities between them.
Deceptive Appearances (Simulacrum)
As a consequence of my origins, my spiritual sonstitution and my sex, reality and fables are closely connected in my mind, the thin line between them is easily trespassable.
I easily communicate between the two, and this dual state of being is the suspence that gives birth to my pictures.
Magic, the capacity to alter reality, begins with collecting: my objects surround me, we ive together for years, and a singular, private relation develops between us. Then once the day comes when the picture living inside me jumps out to the world suddenly and uncontrollably with the tools of photography. In my pictures, the representations of the imaginary life of my characters are surrounded bythe desires and elements of my real life. By the exclusion of reality, and the representation of an alternative world, I create the possibility of leaving and entering, the possibility of identification with something else.
I create opportunity to gain knowledge about the unknown, gain insight to the world of my creation, characteristics of me, hoping to provoke emotional associations, surprise and recognition with the viewer.
Events:
14. 06. 2024. - Guided exhibition tour with Klára Szarka
05. 07. 2024. - Finissage
