Divide Et Impera

Lőrinc Borsos

At VUNU Galery, Košice, Slovakia

Curated by Peter Bencze

October 14, 2020 — January 31, 2021

Don’t worry, your nails will be ready. Come to the gate
Where we separate

Then meet the snake, look into his eyes, And see yourself from inside.
 

Finally we flow forward
To spade ourselves in three parts
But we are careful with the saw,
Because we have to unite again from tomorrow.

— Peter Bencze

Identity:

 

Lilla Lőrinc (1980), and János Borsos (1979) work together since 2008 as Lőrinc Borsos. The name covers an entity with its own creative consciousness. His/her age is currently 12 years. His/ her gender, sexual orientation and intellect are characterized by bipolarity. The basis of his/ her existence is the coexistence of extremities, but his/her actual goal is the solution of duality. He/ she vitalized by transiition. His/her spiritual nutriment is paradox, the intersections of contradictory ideologies. The typical case of fall between two stools but the choice of the floor is self-imposed. The artist aims at the glimpse of the greater whole: instead of choosing a part, he/she is excited about the relation of the parts to the whole.

 

He/she despises hierarchy and the social divide and exclusion created in its wake. He/she sets his own existence/nonexistence against these. Part of his/her art is direct questioning of the medium and social reflection. A dialogue with material, dialogue with the medium. Works that are place- and situation-specific. He/she reflects on the current and delves into longer projects at the same time. For him/her, art gets interesting beyond morals, when it still exists in an unfiltered state, right after the moment of the birth of an idea. At this point there is no political correctness of self- censorship yet.

— Lőrinc Borsos