… his works are seemingly easy to consume: simple texts accompany simple images. One is easy to watch, the other is easy to read, and we seem to understand their intentions. “My God,” we say when we see the lake (or sea?) and the old steamer, “How good it was when…” (“How great it is that here…”, “What it was like when…” etc.)
Of course, if we spend a little more time with each picture (we don’t leaf through them quickly, slowing down our commercial image-neutralizing surfing technique), it turns out that all of this is not so simple, but, as a result, all the more interesting. Because it is far from obvious that the texts accompany the images, and not the other way around. Or if in this case anything accompanies anything at all, or rather, the elements merely coexist (they are superimposed onto each other, but they are not there for each other). And it is not obvious, either, that we have to read the former and take a look at the latter. …
Attila Horányi