Containing space

Just as architectural space needs physical contours to be defined, it needs concepts deriving from one’s needs and motivations. Bodily experiences give the consciousness ground for abstraction, by which it changes its physical environment in return.

The work has been built up around a simple object: the round shaped container, may it be a cup, a bowl or a flowerpot. For many years I have been making these containers on the turning wheel and I have slowly realized that they are very powerful things regarding the conception and the experience of space.

Based on these simple objects I am making constructions that always start with a concept: an idea drawn into three-dimensional space.

However, in corporeality things act different than preconcieved ideas; I adjust and react to the particular characteristics of the materials I work with.

During the building up of each work, I am searching for the fine balance of concept and matter to cancel the (illusory) boundaries between the two.

Within the process

Installation photographs Gerrit Rietveld Academie 3-7 July 2019

Ildikó Horváth

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Photos by András Zoltai, Franziska Mueller Schmidt, Malii Yorks and Ildikó Horváth