2019
In 2019, Hungary commemorated 100 years of the Trianon Treaty to mourn the land of
missed opportunities. This series was made based on the poem “A Magyar Ugaron” - Ady
Endre, a poem which Hungarians would know by heart, it was meant to be made through
photography and for me to understand Hungarian culture more deeply. In the poem, Ugar is
the symbol of Hungary. “This Ugar is full of weeds and horns, destroying the beauty and the
good”. Trees and woods are one of the basic elements in the planet earth, the landscape of
Ugar blended into broken trees to represent an exasperatingly barren reality in
contrast, in which frustration and hopelessness can be found simultaneously. The curvy
branches stand for fluctuate emotions that appeared in different verses of the poem. In
the end, the tragedy remains the same, broken trees never grow back.
exhibition at MOME ground (photo provided by MOME Photography)