At the End of the Rainbow
How are traditions passed down over generations? How are they altered and layered upon each other, and how do they affect individual lives? How can rural life be reinterpreted, and how is it connected to urban life?
The photobook At the End of the Rainbow is a kind of personal and possible collective response to these questions, a visual imprint of the attempts for horticulture and establishing a conscious lifestyle close to nature. It is both an observation and an act of awe. The title reinforces the dreamlike atmosphere, yet it also steers us back to
reality: after all, we can never reach the end of the rainbow. This feeling of unattainability is conceptualized in the individual photographs, which are balanced by the childhood image pair depicting a rainbow, as an expression of hope. The images become the allegory of attaining the goal – finding the end of the rainbow – as an adult. In addition, the example of Erik appears as a specific, consciously constructed alternative. The A-frame tool presented in the video Erik also appears in the installation of the same name. The A-frame is a leveling device used in the first phase of permaculture development:
it is a simple pendulum that is disturbed by a magnet in the installation, and is thus dislocated from its natural position.
The exponentially accelerating development of our times has come to a momentary halt in the spring of 2020, and many had the chance to experience how the pace of progress is impossible to keep up with, and that humanity is out of balance with nature. The A-frame installation is an imprint of this condition–which is also the starting point of the whole project.
>>> At the End of the Rainbow, giclée prints in oak frame, 104 x 74 cm, 2021
>>> At the End of the Rainbow, giclée prints in oak frame, 104 x 74 cm, 2021, Exhibited in Budapest: Capa Központ, Project-room: Pécsi József Photography Grant 2020
>>> A-frame, plan of the installation
>>> A-frame, pendulum of the installation
>>> A-frame, installation, mixed materials (wooden A-frame, metal pendulum, magnet, soil), 90 x 200 x 160 cm, 2021
Exhibited in Budapest: Capa Központ, Project-room: Pécsi József Photography Grant 2020
>>> At the End of the Rainbow, photos of the photobook, 2020
>>> At the End of the Rainbow, Exhibition in Capa Központ, Project-room: Pécsi József Photography Grant 2020
>>> Erik, video: Krisztián Pamuki, Viktória Balogh / interviewees: Erik Kocsis and his Mother / location: Nyim, 2020