Documentation
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- Documentation
- Dokumentáció
- 1979
- leporello: paper, tape, pen, felt-pen, stamp, 32 partly colored b&w photographs
- 21 × 600 cm
Over several years, Károly Elekes and his circle organized multiple actions on the hills around Tîrgu Mureș and at a popular beach on the Mureș River. The so-called “cementlapok” (Hungarian for “cement blocks”) at the latter, representing that area’s industrial transformation, served as the setting for their action series on 1 May, that emblematic day of socialism, in 1979. The special feature of this place was the tempting possibility of suggesting illegality, since part of the beach had been closed off by a metal fence. This territorial demarcation was used to symbolize the prevailing political conditions by Elekes and his friends, who collectively crossed and reflected upon it during their performative event. Using a long white strip, which they hung on the fence, they simulated the fence’s deconstruction and removal using the subversive language of collectively formed political action. This photo series, which consists of 36 individual photographs glued onto a long paper strip that refers back to the original, was passed around and reflected upon by the participants during their next meeting—an act that the artist proceeded to document in a similar format. E.Kü.