WRONG DATA / empty space – 2020

Photo series 50×50 cm

The situation created by the Covid-19 virus results in the vacancy of previously busy spaces. The world stops, people stay at home. A kind of error occured in life, the emptiness of this special situation. The problem was caused by human activity. The pandemic situation is in connection with our way of life, traveling, globalization, trading, which connects distant places. Human activity not only creates a network of connections between countries, but also results in the exploitation of our planet’s energy resources. As a result of frozen globalization, carbon-dioxid emission have dropped drastically, and our biological footprint has declined in a short time. Empty spaces are a witness of our overworked, energy-wasting lives, and the reduction of these errors shows that we need to change our way of life globally, otherwise situations like this will become more common.

Explanation of the series:
At the end of February, I visited the ARCO Madrid fair in Madrid, and right after i returned to Budapest the epidemic has become very serious. My artist friend from Madrid sent photos of the empty city, which i has developed further and the first piece of the series was created. Subsequently, I received photos from many parts of the world through a tender. From artists who helpd to continue the series in a co-production, this creatied a world-wide work that symbolizes the collaboration of artists and at the same time draws attention to the defects in the functioning of our society, which we must reevaluate to avoid a similar situation.

Contributors: Kiszner Édua, Antal István, Marcin Idźkowski, Angela Galvan, Gasquk, Kristijonas Dirse, Peter Korcek, Erhan US, Ciro Di Fiore, Elena Kilina, Sangeeth Aiyappa, Vladimir Stepanchenko, Raki Nikahetiya, David Leshem, Haccoun Myriam 

The original video – Haccoun Myriam – can you watch here.

WRONG SPACE, EMPTY DATA

ARCCA Magazine in London. Author: Géza Kucsár (click to the link)