[artinfo] R. thinking/ dreaming about overpopulation

[Süvecz Emese]

Explain a line what a ball is
A series of works on paper exhibitions
Herman-room, Feszek Klub, Budapest
Curator of the series: Dora Hegyi

Roza El-Hassan
R. thinking/ dreaming about overpopulation
Budapest-Belgrade-Zurich - Blood donation performance video and drawings
Manager of the project: Emese Suvecz

Opening:
June 15, 2004 6 p.m.
At 7 p.m. discussion in the lecture room R. a first name reduced to a letter
Participants: Roza El-Hassan, Peter Gyorgy, Dora Hegyi, Emese Suvecz

On view: until June 15th Monday till Friday 10 am - 6 pm

Róza El-Hassan s work R. dreams about overpopulation, is one of those rare 
conceptual/action pieces that searches for a response to the issues of 
political reality, social awareness and identity by means of radical 
aesthetic autonomy. El-Hassan s radicalism is aesthetic; her politics, 
however, seek to create forms of quest, co-operative thinking and dialogue. 
(We all need advice.) In other words, what we see here is political art 
that, rather than seeking and creating forms for the sake of a clearly 
identifiable commitment, searches for artistic methods that analyse 
political commitment via art. Róza El-Hassan s art proves that on rare 
occasions political iconography is not merely open to question but can even 
be radically criticised in the world of aesthetics, while the metapolitical 
work of art forces us to carry on dialogues and to be boldly sincere. Róza 
El-Hassan is a master of gentle pressure of this kind, and this complex 
work is a masterpiece of such gentle enforcement: a terrible temptation to 
be good.
Péter György

This repeatedly twisted viewpoint, which effectively liberalizes the 
overburdened visual signs, is ironic yet not cynical. The artist draws 
attention to the necessity of taking up a moral position, and implicitly to 
its complexity, in a world in which this can be accomplished only with 
difficulty. This is because representation, as part of the power structure, 
can never be neutral, even when it appropriates a so-called universal value 
in our case the giving of blood. The reading established by El-Hassan 
conveys an explicit political message in Belgrade, Budapest and Zurich 
alike. It pleads the urgent necessity of a collectivism situated outside of 
dogmas one that links all of us regardless of race, gender or confession.
Emese Süvecz

El-Hassan Roza munkaja az R. a tulnepesedesrol almodik egyike azoknak
a ritka konceptualis-akcio muveknek, amelyek a politikai valosag, tarsadalmi
ontudat es identitas kerdeseire a radikalis esztetikai autonomia altal keresnek
valaszt. El-Hassan radikalizmusa: esztetikai, politikaja viszont a kereses, 
kozos
gondolkozas , a parbeszed formainak megteremteset jelenti. (Mindannyian 
tanacsra
szorulunk.) Azaz olyan politikai muveszettel van dolgunk, amely nem egy 
vilagosan
azonosithato elkotelezettseg erdekeben keres es teremt format, ellenben ez az
alkotas a politikai elkotelezettseget a muveszet altal elemzo muveszi 
modszereket
keresi. El-Hassan Roza muveszete annak bizonyiteka, hogy ritka esetekben a
politikai ikonografia nem pusztan kikezdheto, de az esztetika vilagaban 
radikalisan
biralhato, s a metapolitiaki mualkotas mindannyiunkat parbeszedre, kimeletlen
oszintesegre kenyszerit. Ennek a szelid kenyszernek mestere El-Hassan Roza,
ennek a szeldid kenyszeritesnek a remekmuve ez az osszetett munka:
a rettenetes kisertes a jora.
Gyorgy Peter

A tobbszorosen megcsavart nezopont tenylegesen liberalizalja a felhasznalt
az ideologiailag tulterhelt vizualis jeleket, ironikus megsem cinikus. A 
moralis
allasfoglalas szuksegszerusgere es egyben komplikaltsagara hivja fel a 
figyelmet
egy olyan vilagban, amelyben ez nehezen valosithato meg, mert a reprezentacio
a hatalmi struktura reszekent sosem lehet neutralis, meg akkos sem, ha un.
"univerzalis erteket"; ( veradas) sajatit ki. Az El-Hassan altal megteremtett
olvasat ezert explicit politikai uzenettel bir Belgradban Budapesten es 
Zurichben
egyarant, egy olyan kollektivizmus egeto szuksegszerusege mellett ervel, ami
fajra, nemre es vallasi hovatartozasra tekintet nelkul mindannyiunkat 
osszekot.;
Suvecz Emese

for more information contact:
Hegyi Dóra <hegyid at ludwigmuseum.hu>
Suvecz Emese <suvecz.emese at communicatio.hu>