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Ada Vilhan solo exhibition at the Tokaj Art Wine Gallery. Opening on Thursday 7 March at 6 pm. The exhibition will be opened by psychiatrist György Bánki. Tokaj Art Wine Gallery, 1054 Budapest Hold utca 21. first floor, bell 70 Guided tour: on 14 March at 6 pm Dr Délia Vékony will give a guided tour. - - - The exhibition is open free of charge until 10 April, Opening hours: Mon-Fri 12-18 Is there ever a human relationship in which two completely independent and free people are connected without interest? What is the experience of inner-outer freedom like for people today? Hypothesis: if everyone would at least halfway know themselves and start to be their authentic, autonomous, free selves, then velvety soft happiness would come into friendships, relationships, marriages, work relationships... Have you ever commented on anyone without interest? Barthes writes that the lover's tongue "trembles with desire". But what language do we use when we talk about other things? Is it only the lover's language that is skin trembling with hidden desire, or does this apply to other types of speech? Barthes does not give an answer, leaving us to ponder the idea for ourselves. The abstract, instinctive, expressive, powerful language and minimalism. I am an abstract expressionist painter. In my painting I strive for minimalism despite the rich factures. Only in my very early works did the human figure appear. When I started to work with photography in 2009, it was finally decided that for me, figurativity, consciously structured imagery, was the task of photography. The beauty of painting is that it can take you into a much deeper realm than reality, and this space of thought is already free of environmental context, and is therefore necessarily abstract. In 2022 I read the book Saving the Beautiful. I found it very inspiring for my subject. The author, Byung-Chul Han, writes: "I sometimes know better an image that I can only remember than one that I can see". When I paint, I am portraying my emotional reality. In this way, I give space to the essential thoughts that the experience of reality awakens in me. Everything that has depth or something to say must be given time and space. This is as true for creation as it is for reception. When we look at a picture and then close our eyes, we are talking about the picture in the silence. There is something musical about seeing well. Good music also comes when the eyes are closed. In a state of striving for silence. Today's positive society increasingly deconstructs the negativity of injury. Likes dominate perception and are easily consumed by beauty. But seeing is always seeing as something else in an emphatic sense, that is, experiencing. One cannot see otherwise without exposing oneself to an injury. Seeing implies vulnerability. Injury is a moment of truth in seeing. So learning to see is anything but a conscious process. Rather, it is letting it happen, or exposing oneself to an event. In the exhibition, I have consciously paired my abstract images with my photographs that focus on women, that is, my questions of freedom for women. What kind of women do I see around me now, what women used to be like, what kind of woman am I, and the main question, is what we call feminism today a good influence on relationships? Like Barthes, I want to leave it to the viewer to find the answers.