'Big Hope' presents the latest works; photos, videos and objects by Miklos Erhardt and Dominic Hislop.
Their work investigates the aesthetics of everyday relations, documenting shifts between global and local reality. This is executed in a manner which makes it possible to see unfamiliar associations such as Marx and Che Guevara in the form of sugar packaging, a slowed down rollercoaster, a rotating, digital hammer and sickle, slaps and dictionaries, repainted pictures and sanded photographs. Word plays and materials in strange situations.
Dominic Hislop has spent 2 years in Hungary. It was here that he made his first interventions in public space which, since installation have maintained a quiet presence in the city's landscape working slowly and subtly at the margins of perceptability. His work is often inspired by public space, even if indirectly, as in his videos, urban landscapes or in his reconstructed, recontextualised found objects. These works represent, often in an ironic way, the interests of the urban inhabitants who are living in increasingly precarious economic and confused social relations as well as the interests of the artist who wants to examine his own social responsibility through participation in the lawless game of reality.
Miklos Erhardt's objects, videos and sanded 'documentary' photos, on the one hand question the term 'documentary', in particular the moralising tendencies surrounding the documentation of social reality. On the other hand they are documents of themselves and of their own perishable nature. Using simple materials and familiar symbols and icons, often of a political character, he operates in the manner of an DIY enthusiast, moulding, shaping or sanding them in a desperately absurd and futile search for some kind of meaning beyond their surface.
