Peter Weiler's Presentation - Online Streaming

VOID

Never were we more connected,

never were we so lonely

To build a tunnel, often two teams start digging at the two ends, and if all works out, they meet in the middle. I also started the research of my MFA thesis from two entry points: Discussing my family’s history in the context of life during and after World War II, and while conducting research on how loneliness shapes our life and artistic creativity.   A VOID is an absence. Any Jewish Hungarian family could tell a story of absent relatives, absent dreams, broken family trees. As an artist, I was always telling stories of Hungarian history, art history, collective memories of our life under the Socialist dictatorship. I never told my family’s history, and now the time has come to dive deep into my own upbringing and how I became an artist.

During COVID I bought a slide scanner…