"What do you miss, what do you need? - Zsófia Szemző asks friends, acquaintances, and-she draws the inventory of momentary wishes, and life-long desires. She isolates the responses from the life stories-and from the cultural and social factors, and transforms them into mere facts that are comparable, measurable data, and places them in a fictitious periodic table. The periodic table of Mendeleev is the embodiment of positivist science and faith, which is also proved by the fact that Mendeleev marked the place of the elements unknown at the time. However the "specific gravity" of deficits is relativized to the extent of a feeling of just a fact of record. Abraham Maslow attempted to objectively sort the shortages that threaten human existence into a structure. The physiological, psychological, social conditions and levels of self-fulfillment that he referred to as needs, are transformed by anyone into rearranged charts in the exhibition space, so that the individual preferences take the place of the biological determinations. The science has developed numerous methods for measuring describing and comparing the individual's social and economic circumstances and psychological states. Zsófia Szemző treats all these methods with reservations, and heads the trail of the desires and feelings, to explore the subjective experience of objective circumstances."Judit Csatlós
There are tools for measuring needs of people. It is possible to make statistics, about how many people live in very poor conditions, or how many people are illiterate. But how we live our needs is not measurable What is it in our life that we need? It seams, that this is a general feeling, and people feel the same. In the drawings and other picture elements need-metaphors are present. Abraham Maslow piramisa a hiányok megértését szolgálja.
Liget galéira 2011.09 - 2011.10.
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