The line
Line that has no beginning. No end. In progress…
Lines that connect, divide, show direction, or through their intersections place us all at a crossroads.
Interaction, encounters, points and planes of intersection. Displacement, change of direction, shift in perspective. Expansion, across surfaces and into space. The direction and rhythm of the line are defined by the characteristics of the space in this case, drawn by the architecture of Négyszoba Gallery.
During the pandemic, the concept required an entirely new approach to presenting The Line in a way that responded to the reality of the gallery being inaccessible due to quarantine restrictions.
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Ferenc Forrai
series: The line
date: 2020.
location: Négyszoba Gallery, Budapest
photographer: Milán Rácmolnár
In Process with Ferenc Forrai
It has no beginning. It has no end. We all are in line, our lines cross – how will it ever make circularity? At Ferenc Forrai’s exhibition everything is possible and possible is everything. The typographer brings condensed literature and essential visual art to his audience year by year; now he presents the most elementary model of being.
Master Forrai balances on the borderline of real and virtual at his exhibition, which is the maquette of an exhibition – and the related online guided tours also constitute parts of the Forrai matrix.
Could it even have been like this? – the Line is also a question mark in a year when everything ended up differently from the way it could be planned. Is it possible to plan at all? Planning is the only thing possible, says Forrai conscientiously, then we notice a secret message somewhere below the line.
What does it say, we wonder. It is a question of viewpoint. Multiple changes in the heavy steadiness – it teaches us self-knowledge at each other’s intersection points. This is what this Line is like – let’s just be careful not to lose track: our life of a carousel swing hangs by a single wire in the infinity, in dependent independence, but it is fine the way it is because we like risks. Ferenc Forrai is still his old self even in the these days – because he is brand new: infinitely accurate.