After more than two years of ascetic, almost monastic work, Erika Fábián has created her Quiet rituals series, which commemorates slowness and immersion in the moment. On each side of the small wooden cubes, which evoke childhood play, an infinite field of color is drawn out, composed of colored dots, which condense the notions of repetition and anxiety, ritual and compulsion, like an imaginary web. The ethereal spectacle of the clouds of color dissolving into one another also functions as a chromatic system through which the emotional trajectory the artist has traversed in the past is traced. The creative process, like a self-healing ritual, equips the artist to deal with the insecurities and existential doubts caused by physical and social isolation, as well as traumas inherited over generations. The almost infinite permutation of frames and the resulting tension is counterbalanced by the transformation of the object into a magical grid system in which chaos finds order, anxiety finds serenity, and creativity finds form.
Róna Kopeczky
Quiet rituals series, I-VI, 60x60x9cm, Acrylic and wood, 2019-2021
In MNB Art & Culture collection
Photo by Dániel Fodor
Quiet rituals series, 3x3x3cm, 300 pieces, Acrylic and wood cubes, 2019-2021
In MNB Art & Culture collection
Photo by Dániel Fodor
Photo by Orsolya Egressy
