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A Whale of a Bad Time exhibition - and the project of the same name - evokes and interprets the social and cultural phenomena of the period between 1980 and 2000 through the memory and art of the “born free” generation.

 

It seems that more and more people are looking backwards, looking for solutions in uncertainty. To quote Svetlana Boym, nostalgic retrospect is not merely an individual state, but a symptom of our time, a pandemic that seems to be intensifying with modernity. The person or persons experiencing nostalgia transform history into a private and collective mythology, by which time becomes a space that can be traversed again. We have a responsibility, we need to distinguish between actual and, over time, changed and coloured by emotional “lost home” memories that we longin for.

The A Whale of a Bad Time exhibition creates this traversable space in the Gábor Sillye Cultural House in Hajdúböszörmény as part of the Spinning the Sticky Threads of Childhood Memories: From Cold War to Anthropocene conference.

 

Exhibitors: Ivor Almásy, Mátyás Erményi, István Felsmann, Márk Fridvalszki, Sári Gink, Dorottya Kalocsai, Bálint Katona, Katalin Kortmann Járay, Karina Mendreczky, Éva Szombat, Balázs Máté Tóth, Márton Emil Tóth

 

Organizers: Bálint Ács, Sári Gink, Dorottya Kalocsai, Zsófia Kókai, Katalin Kortmann Járay

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Photography : Simon Zsuzsi

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https://www.awhaleofabadtime.com/a-whale-of-a-bad-time-2

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