Exhibition · 2018

Contemporary Artists of Pest County

25 January 2018 · City Hall, Budapest

In my own words

A group show in Budapest City Hall where my New York photographs represented Gödöllő, of all places. I rather enjoyed the irony of that — a small Hungarian town speaking through pictures of Manhattan.

But it made sense in the end. Local identity and the wide world are not opposites; they are the two ends of the same rope. Most of us spend our lives holding on somewhere in the middle.

Gallery

Works from the exhibition

A modern high-rise lounge with leather armchairs overlooks the Manhattan skyline through floor-to-ceiling windows.
A night view of Times Square in New York, ablaze with neon signs, theater marquees, and traffic.
A young girl in a red outfit stands on a rocky shore facing the East River, with the Brooklyn Bridge and Manhattan skyline ahead.
Old wooden pilings rise from the water at sunset with the Lower Manhattan skyline glowing in the background.

© Norbert Bánhalmi / BANHALMI. All rights reserved. Images from the BANHALMI archive, 1999–2026.

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How it connects to the wider work

A group show in Budapest City Hall where my New York photographs represented Gödöllő, of all places.

Period of the oeuvre

III2017–2018The body as memory, illness and recovery

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This exhibition belongs here because of the question behind it, the photographs it brought together and the traces it left in public.