My work is closely related to my previous series, Public Spaces (http://kolozsibea.hu/kozterek-sorozat-2016-tol/), which explores how sculptures in various public urban spaces shape social identity and public taste.
How does the human body appear in public spaces? In what roles, according to what ideals of beauty and social expectations do we see these figures? How can this affect future generations and influence their thinking?
I have played with the idea of how our social and other identities would be shaped if, in our daily lives, we saw at least as many statues of Vilma Hugonnai, Janka Zirzen, Rosa Parks, or Marie Curie as we do of Petőfi, Kossuth, or Ady.
What if we did not only admire the beauty of the female body but also the idealized depictions of men—the other half of humanity?
What if men were shown washing dishes and women fixing cars?
What if a parenting couple consisted of two men or two women?
With the help of AI, I created images of public spaces depicting something different from the dominant sculptural themes of the past 100–150 years (e.g., a woman playing with her child, a woman bathing, a female nude, a patriotic man, a man reading, etc.). I then photographed these AI-generated digital images using analogue photographic techniques. The Polaroid process transformed these visions into tangible, (pseudo-)realities.