From the series TROPICAL DEPRESSION | Flower Vendor
2019–2024
AI-modified image
(Grammarly, Midjourney, Adobe Photoshop, ChatGPT, Gemini, Google Lens)
pigment print on archival paper
Younger (Vietnamian) generations strive for Western-style self-realisation, while those who support them hold differing views on the proper way to live. Yet, this conflict of interest is also discernible at other levels of social organisation. In this rapidly developing country, traditional market economy dynamics operate within a communist one-party system. (…) Throughout his travels, Kudász asked young people about their aspirations, uncovering the sometimes-tragic entanglement of fate between parents and children. (…) Kudász’s staged settings separate relatives in the same physical space, illustrating the expectations that undermine perceived unity and the resistance to those expectations. Post-production techniques, ranging from Photoshop to artificial intelligence, further enhance the sense of the fluidity of truth. The delicate balance between appearance and reality underscores the contemporary issue of the emptiness behind visual information. (curatorial introduction by Zsuzsanna Kozák, PhotoLab Szentendre, 2024) közben felrajzolódott szülők és gyermekek kényszerűen egymásba gabalyodott sorsának olykor tragikus mintázata is. (...)
photo: Kudász Gábor Arion
Gábor Arion Kudász
(1978, Budapest)
Gábor Arion Kudász graduated from the Hungarian University of Applied Arts (MIE) in 2003. In his art, he aspires to be an authentic representative of reality. He combines documentary, staged, and generated motifs in his works, and his examination of the connection between responsibility and ambition plays a prominent role. He has been supported in his work by the József Pécsi Scholarship and the Budapest Photography Scholarship, and he won the Rudolf Balogh Award in 2012 and the Capa Grand Prize in 2015. With his series HUMAN, he successfully defended his dissertation on human scale in 2016. Between 2018 and 2021, he was a scholarship holder at the research institute of the Hungarian Academy of Arts. In 2021, he participated in the Saari Residence programme of the Kone Foundation in Finland. His works are displayed in the collections of the Hungarian National Gallery and the Musée de lʼElysée. He is currently heading the Photography Centre at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design.