Hungarian artist Róza El-Hassan`s Undo examined our modern, insatiable appetite for images.
Although our present-day obsession with images was the topic of Undo, visitors to De Vleeshal did not immediately encounter any. A gigantic placard, placed casually against a wall, urged the audience to `strip` and `destroy` the images present in the hall, and – once cleansed – to open De Vleeshal`s shutters, letting in the sunlight. Róza El-Hassan illustrated this appeal through drawings, images and pictures taken from the internet, collected in books. These books contained what was missing from the hall – and vice versa.
El-Hassan aims to uncover the intricate interrelationships within our reality, without allowing herself to be seduced by unequivocal `solutions`. Undo revealed how presence is interwoven with absence, desire with purity, and purity with lust.
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