GARDEN

The focus of the project is a garden -  Viktoria Balogh’s parents’ garden. In the context created by the works, the garden is a venue  as
a way of life as a certain place of splanchnic knowledge  that can be hardly determined with linguistic means.  The exhibition deals with
this knowledge summing up  the experiences that can be gained through the road. 

The photographs, maps, as well as the time expressing  motion pictures and images from the family archive all  depict the garden. 

The photobook represents a year of István Balogh’s and  Ágnes’ land and sometimes even the grandparents’ land  turns up as well. 

The works of Viktória Balogh raises questions as for instance  the preservation of knowledge as a family heritage,  the relationship between
the rural and the urban  environment, the contemporar y interpretation of the garden  as a symbol as well as the maintenance of the land beside  working in a full time job. 

The daily work that is needed to produce and consume  requires a great deal of know-how and creativity,  an attitude that is in many respects reminds us  for the professional and creative processes in the city.  Balogh’s works are prints of a diligent mentality by returning  to the garden tr ying to preser ve the knowledge passed on  from generations to generations. 

In addition, the garden has a metaphorical meaning besides  the knowledge that can be described by numbers  and results, since it is a place of heroic work that  creates something from nothing. 

(Róza Tekla Szilágyi, curator of the Garden exhibition, 2018, ISBN Books and Gallery)