I find it gripping to come across and browse through texts on lost notes, old postcards, letter fragments or notebook pages blown away by the wind. Once such documents as parts of another-private-world used to be important for someone.
Removed from their original contexts and joined together with a photo they do not only start a new life as diptychs but continue the old one.
Peach, 2010/2011, Found Text-photo series
“Peech, 2 biscits, 10 rolls, Bred, 10 Minsmeat, 2 sausages”
Vain, 1975/2011, Found Text-photo series,
digital technology, giclée print, foam board, 16x40 cm
„My dear Rozetta! I didn’t put this card in the letter because I wanted to write to you about what I have arranged. Unfortunately nothing because my buddy is on holiday and only his assistant is here. So I’ve come in vain. Kisses, Szilvi”
1975
Absence, n.d. 2010, Found Text-photo series,
“S. József 6754 Újszentiván Rákóczi u. 56. EM0740 Pannónia UO7585 [...] Reward if Found”
n.d.
Boyfriend/01, 2009/2010, Found Text-photo series
When did you last have a boyfriend?”
Boyfriend/02, 2009/2009, Found Text-photo series
“Would you like to have a boyfriend in the future?”
Boyfriend/03, 2009/2011, Found Text-photo series
“Would you like to have a boyfriend in the future?”
Despair, é.n./2009, Found Text-photo series,
“Dearest Feri! This is my seventh card and no news from you at all and it makes me despair what is the reason? Kisses, your sibling.”
n.d.
Stalin, c. 1950/2009, Found Text-photo series,
„Our hart is ligt and sumer is fin songs fli like brees and our new genereition bilds a new cuntry. Wit the neim of comreid stalin rais and work. Hurreysingtheheppyniw song of stalin.”
1950 k.,
Health, 2012/2012, Found Text-photo series, 2012
„Health!”
2012
Black Pudding, é.n./2011, Found Text-photo series
"Dear Irénke Please don’t be mad at this nasty Sanyi for nicking your share of the black pudden.”
Still Alive, é.n./2011 Found Text-photo series
“We wish you a merry christmas and a happy new year. My dearest Bözsike let me tell you that Jóska had 2 hertattacks on 1 november in he's home. The children were very good. I broke my rist in the summer and recently I have been blind in one eye for 3 days, getting treetment the now we are still alive kisses to you and the children we don’t go anywhere anymore love Juci Joska”
Protection, é.n./2014, Found Text-photo series,
“Let Him protect and help you through your whole life. With love, […]”
é.n.
At cuntryfeir, 1947/2011, Found Text-photo series,
“taken at cuntryfeir 1947”
1947
Downtown, 1990k./2014, Found Text-photo series,
“gone downtown kisses mummy”
c. 1990