Bicycles Tranquil garden exhibited

 

Szilágyi-Nagy Ildikó, Tranquil Garden, Bicycle 1., 2010, date of developing: 2011, 15x15 cm, Ilford photographic paper

 

Tranquil Garden, Bicycle 2., 2010, date of developing: 2011, 15x15 cm, Ilford photographic paper

 

Tranquil Garden, Bicycle 3., 2010, date of developing: 2011, 15x15 cm, Ilford photographic paper

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I have been taking this series of still lifes since 2009. This summer began for me with a group exhibition, where 3 of my photos, together with some of my poems, were exhibited. The title of the exhibition was "I came by bus number 7". Bus line 7 is one of the most crowded public transportation facility of Budapest. Why not to choose a bicycle instead?

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The Depression A photo series in an old Hungarian tenement house

photo: Ildikó Szilágyi-Nagy, The Depression series, 1.

I am an admirer of old houses of any kind and I am so lucky that I posess a flat in an about a hundred year old tenement house in Budapest. This house doesn't have extraordinary architextural peculiarities, but it is tipical in Budapest. You can see the most spectacular tenement houses in Andrássy Road and they are rebuilt nicely. But most of our old houses are in shamefully degraded condition. We, who own a little flat (mine is 33 square meters) in such a house, constantly take new and new loans to catch up with the renovating neccesities which the predecessor owner neglected to make. The predecessor owner of these old houses was the former People's Republic of Hungary. The original owners? They were banished or killed in the storms of history.