Alagya (Szilvia Bolla & Aron Lodi) (HU)
8. 6. 2024 – 31. 7. 2024
Alagya is a research- and collaboration-based practice by Szilvia Bolla (b.1992, Hungary) and Aron Lodi (b.1996, Hungary). They aim to construct new possible forms of literacy to decode and mourn planetary life and identity in the capitalocene through collaborative work and interplay between sculpture and text. Based on both speculation and facts, they attempt to forge visionary pre-/reimaginations of technofossils as material traces of the capitalocene – the age when (pseudo-) commodity appears as a species that desires chaos and necrotizes the entire planet. However, instead of interpreting technofossils as ghostly dead matter, the project examines them as dynamic entities through the scope of new materialist vitalism as a form of elegiac grief of the irreversible losses of our future past. They create material hybrids, body machines that are inhabitants / refugees / natives / critters / creatures / survivors of the monstrous sublime and uncanny paradox. Thus, the project Alagya embraces identity, materiality and technology to learn about what it means/how it feels to be a dweller of a world in which matter, tool, human and information are irrevocably intertwined.
They held workshops and shown works at Ultrastudio Gallery (Pescara, IT), Under500 Festival (Budapest, HU), A Promise of Kneropy (Bratislava, SK), Vunu Gallery (Kosice, SK), LAM (Budapest, HU) and Létminimum Bázis (Budapest, HU), Petrohradska Kolektiv (Prague, CZ), Akademie Schloss Solitude (Stuttgart, DE), and Semester9 (Amsterdam, NL).
