NYAB Event - Hrvoje Slovenc & Monika Sziladi "There is More to the Story"

Hrvoje Slovenc & Monika Sziladi "There is More to the Story"

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Helac Fine Art proudly presents There is More to the Story, an exhibition of recent photographs by Mónika Sziládi from her Wide
Receivers series and Hrvoje Slovenc from his series, Marble Hill.

Focusing on the inherent tension between reality and fiction in photography, Mónika Sziládi’s digital collage constructions investigate the complexities of human behavior and group dynamics. Her photographs illustrate the paradoxical relationship between the multitude of possibilities for re-invention and individual expression offered by society along with the pressure for assimilation perpetuated by interactions with new media. Approaching her subjects from an anthropological perspective, Sziládi identifies the ways in which mass media dictates social behavior and how it has supplanted other societal institutions that historically performed this function. In the series Wide Receivers, Sziládi candidly photographed the attendees at offline networking, meet-up and public relations events that originated online as they interacted in their mediated environments. A nod to current conventions of media display, she rearranges focal points and group interactions to mimic the experience of viewing an image, as one would scan a computer screen with multiple windows open. In photographs such as Untitled (Candy), 2009, consumption and desirability manifest themselves in body language, clothing and disjointed social interaction of the young women at this event. The self-consciousness of the participants is amplified by the tenuous relationship between public and private personas that each woman chooses to display within this ephemeral environment.