Uniformity and frustration

“Why do people gather in a particular place, and how do they preserve their individuality? What kind of people are they anyway? What is the purpose they unite for – if it is unity, and not chance mixing?” People and places. A reciprocity union that is stronger when concentrated in space, though it may appear ludicrous in the eyes of the observer. From these kind of situations the “childish” attention of the Hungarian photographer Gábor Arion Kudász is attracted. A look that moves discreet through people, questioning their presence. A presence which, at times, appears homogenous and indistinct, almost as if the many personalities were melted into a background noise, loosing their natural spontaneity. “Man is a social animal, but a crowd is not company”, we read on Kudász’s website. This is why his interest seems to address the shifting boundary where are still perceptible the signs of happiness of groups not yet transformed into passive masses.

Photo:

© Gábor Arion Kudász, Courtesy of Vintage Galéria, Budapest (Hungary)

www.arionkudasz.com

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