Automatic Sight: Autofókusz an online exhibition, inspired by ANNA T. SZABÓ’s poem Autofókusz.
May 28th-June 13th, 2021
Solo shows by Amy Sands, Svetlana Ochkovskaya, and Zolt Asta, with an online performance as an event here by Laura Dubourjal.
Curated by Anne Murray as part of Fringe Arts Bath.
Curator:
Anne Murray is a writer, artist, and curator. Her work explores human and other, language and absence, identifying new pathways to connect, while imagining herself as both an octopus and a stone. This research manifests in various media including poetry, video, installation, performance, photography, social practice, and art criticism. Educated at Parsons School of Design in Paris and Pratt Institute in New York, she now lives in Budapest. Her video work Exquisite Exodus was included in Cf as part of the Research Pavilion curated by Jeanette Doyle at the Venice Biennale in 2017 and at La Biennale Méditerranéenne d’Art Contemporain d’Oran, Algeria. She has exhibited in Europe, Asia, and the United States.
Artists exhibiting in solo shows:
Amy Sands (MFA, Pratt Institute) is a Minneapolis based artist focusing on one-of-a-kind works on paper that integrate traditional and digital methods of printmaking. She has exhibited in solo and group shows across the world including: Prints Tokyo 2012, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum; the International Printmaking Biennial of Douro, Portugal; and the International Biennial Print Exhibit: 2020 R.O.C. at The National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan. Her work has been internationally recognized with numerous awards including First Prize ~ Mini Print III International Cantabria/Impact 10 in Santander, Spain; Juror’s Choice Award ~ Awagami International Miniature Print Exhibition 2017, Tokushima, Japan; First Place ~ Home exhibition at the Rourke Art Museum, Moorhead, MN. Sands maintains a studio in the Twin Cities area where she is Assistant Professor of Studio Arts at Metropolitan State University, St Paul, MN.
Svetlana Ochkovskaya currently lives and works in Portsmouth, UK. Since graduating from the BA Fine Art course at Southampton Solent University in 2017, she has also completed Masters in Fine Art at Goldsmiths University of London, graduating in 2020. She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally. Recent solo exhibitions include We Are Not Ourselves at the Stone Space and Jeannie Avent Gallery in London and Portal Fantasy at the K6 Gallery in Southampton. Svetlana won second place in the Sunny Art Prize in 2020. She has been shortlisted for the Zealous Stories Photography 2021; the Batsford Prize Award 2021, 2019, 2017; the Zealous Stories Performance 2020; the Visual Art Open Prize 2018; the Harvest Short Film Competition 2019; the Nasty Women International Art Prize 2018. She has received the Goldsmiths International Response Scholarship Award 2017. Svetlana has completed a residency and exhibited at Aspex Gallery in Portsmouth and shortlisted for the Platform Graduate Award in 2017. She has also completed residencies at Solent University and Sticks Gallery in Fareham. Recent publications include Ludvig Rage, Inside Artist and Trebuchet.
Zolt Asta, born Zsolt Asztalos, in 1974 in Mátészalka, Hungary. Asta lives and works in Budapest. He graduated from the University of Fine Arts, Budapest in 1999 in Dora Maurer’s class. Asta has exhibited throughout Hungary and Europe. He represented Hungary, under the name Zsolt Asztalos at the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013 with his project ‘Fired but Unexploded.’ His art focuses on the past in several aspects. In previous years, his research turned to the topic of individual and recorded world history. He also analyses the history of art in regard to the official Canon. He uses various media in his work, including: installation, film, video, photography, and print computer graphics.
Zolt Asta is represented by Ani Molnár Gallery in Budapest under the pseudonym Zsolt Asztalos.
Laura Dubourjal (1994) is a French visual artist and fashion designer who uses auto- fictional choreographies as a layout for creating interactive audio-visual and spatial installations. She is currently based between Amsterdam and Paris.
She received a BA in Arts and Design from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie (NL) in 2018, and is currently participating in the Art Praxis programme at Dutch Art Institute (NL). She often draws references from classical theatre techniques by excavating fragments and examples of emotional memory, behavioural landscapes and visual fabulations. Her work has been exhibited in venues and events such as Oude Kerk in 2015, Amsterdam Fashion Week in 2018, Eight Cubic Meters Gallery in 2020, Kunstcapel Amsterdam in 2019, and KunstRAI Art Fair 2019.