News from the future

(Péter Szabó, Csaba Szentesi, curator: Borbála Szalai)

According to this dystopia, sometime in the future, a homeless man takes shelter in the deserted building of the Contemporary Art Institution. The squatter uses the pieces of the abandoned art collection to create the conditions necessary for survival. He finds new functions for the pieces of art: he makes a table, chairs, lamps, a bed, and decoration out of them, anything which make his immediate microenvironment more

comfortable. He sets those pieces objects things apart, which he thinks he might sell at the flea-market. He collects burnable objects, so he can cook and warm himself by the fire. And he collects art objects made of metal to sell to junkyards to be melted up by iron recyclers.

Thus in that given moment the squatter and the pieces of art become mutually dependent from eachother. Finding new functions for the works is not only fundamental for the survival of the man, but is also the prerequisite for the survival of the objects of art,  since everything, which cannot be directly used or sold on the market, might be burned or melted up...