Shifting River, wood, plasterboard, 75 paintings (acrylic, oil on canvas) 2023
Adrienn Mária Kiss, who is completing her doctoral program at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts, rearranges her canvases, which have been available in standard, prefabricated form for the past years, but have accumulated in large quantities, this time into a spatially tailored, overly stretched, sprawling installation (Shifting River). The small-format images draw our attention to the economic context behind studio work (the availability of raw materials, the economics of experimental studio by-products and the cost of storing works) and to the instantaneous, commodified artistic expression offered in everyday life. Kiss does not incorporate these materials into her art as an object of moralising critique, but treats everyday experience as an integral element of constantly active, fiddling creative experimentation.
(Júlia Salamon, curator pf the exhibition “Letting Do”, 2023, Torula Art Space, Győr (Hungary)
Photo: Zsuzsi Simon, Adrienn Mária Kiss