CLOSED DUE TO TECHNICAL REASONS BETWEEN 23-24 NOVEMBR 2024.

In 2022, the worlds of textile designer Zsófia Gyenes and visual artist Ferenc Gróf converged in a collaborative journey. After over two decades in Paris, they relocated to Orléans, where, in October 2023, they established their joint studio. Their collective works traverse the boundary between textile design and visual art, creating a unique fusion of these fields. Their inaugural joint exhibition draws inspiration from the iceberg metaphor of Maria Mies (1931-2023), the German ecofeminist thinker, as articulated in her 1999 work The Subsistence Perspective: Beyond the Globalised Economy, co-authored with Veronika Bennholdt-Thomsen. This metaphor critiques the economic model of patriarchal capitalism. The exhibition features works created over the past year, inspired by diagrams, infographics, and political slogans reflecting ecological and economic despair. Through these pieces, they aim to construct new building blocks, offering a fresh perspective on these pressing issues.

Zsófia Gyenes (b. 1977, Budapest) is a textile designer and visual artist. She completed her studies in Budapest and Paris, graduating from the textile department of ENSAD (École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs) in 2004. After nearly twenty years working as a textile designer in the fashion, interior design, and automotive industries, she embarked on an independent artistic practice in 2022.

Ferenc Gróf (b. 1972, Pécs) founding member of the Société Réaliste group, where he developed a distinctive artistic language using linguistic and typographic elements, statistics, and cartographic symbols to examine social processes and reveal connections between the past and present. Following the dissolution of the group, he has retained this perspective, with his works now exploring ideological imprints at the intersection of graphic design and spatiality.

The event is part of the 8th Grafic Art Biennial of Szeklerland program series.