Nature.
‘As a Hungarian-German artist, I explore images, ideas, and projections of nature and their role in the tension between individual experience and interpersonal relationships. Themes of idealization and escapism, aesthetic elevation and mystical charge, as well as communication and demarcation, form the starting point. The focus is on an engagement with cultural traditions of perceiving, representing, and evaluating the natural. My practice is interdisciplinary and concept-driven, moving between video, photography, installation, and sculpture.’
Cecilia Szabó
Imagined Spaces | Dreamed Spaces – Between Nature and Construction
(Staged Photographs, Video)
This artistic work combines analog photography with AI-generated video. It is based on two staged photographs that I took in the forest of the Luxembourgish Switzerland region. Nature and mystical symbols such as the egg, the bird, and the fog are the central motifs; they are ancient carriers of meaning within human cultural history. The video sequences repeatedly return to these photographs — and thus (symbolically) to the origin.
The visual transformations, image sequences, and atmospheric condensations were deliberately directed, further developed, and elaborately crafted by me through multiple stages. In this way, AI does not function as an autonomous producer of technical images, but rather as a tool within a controlled creative process. The result is a visual narrative situated between nature photography, digital art, and artificial intelligence.
Membrane
(Performance)
A thin partition or covering, capable of vibrating and selectively permeating – this is a membrane that expands like skin while remaining flexible.
The one-off performance, taking place in the seclusion of a forest, plays with these properties of a material, while also using it as a surface that reflects the play of light and shadow from the surrounding trees.
The Forest – The Egg
(Staged Photography, Sculpture)
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Radical Harmony
(Macro Photography)
Is the focus on ‘beauty’ and ‘harmony’ – aspects that are inherent in nature – an idealisation of nature, a departure from reality, simply kitsch, or even superfluous in the face of pressing global problems?
Or is it about appreciating life, enjoying a brief moment of peace and accepting the transience of things, taking a break from the constant stream of (visual) horror stories that reach us every day through the media?
Not a fish
(Macro Photography)
Plants or animals? The photo series plays with this boundary and celebrates this apparent contradiction.
The Thread – The Net
(Macro Photography, Sculpture)
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Darkness
(Night Photography)
Like flowers blooming in unexpected places, these branches reveal their transparency in the darkness of the night. The location of the event does not really matter; the splendour of darkness glows wherever nature occurs.
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Art is communication, and even silence tells a story. If you would like to share something with me, the best way to reach me is by email.