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RYXPER1126AE, 14.03 – 16.04.2020, Trafo Gallery, Budapest
‘This enclosed container houses something we cannot perceive, a memory to the past or an illusion. It is enclosed here in its image and its form, flattened akin to a 19th century diorama. A camera establishes the way of seeing without permission to full understanding without permission to be inhaled.’

The exhibition of Dorota Gawęda and Eglė Kulbokaitė invites and isolates the visitors at the same time, leading them into zones of the in-between. In-between the space of the real and that of the online realm, in-between matter and information, nature and its rendered representation, narration and theory, individual and collective experiences. Central to the exhibition is a fragrance, which is a synthetic molecular replica, a volatile memory of the smell collected during one of the previous performances of the artists. The scent together with other elements in the exhibition – such as organic installation, a video generated with artificial intelligence, a sound installation and diverse objects – renders the abandoned gallery space an aberrant, organic but also austere speculative environment.

The show - that slipped to online platforms - is complemented by accompanying events, performance documentation, an online collective reading session in relation to the Young Girl Reading Group project of the artists ongoing since 2013 and to Trafó Gallery’s Hangover Reading Club series offering timely theoretical texts for discussion as well as a reader assembled by the artists.

Ella Plevin's fictional story RYXPER1126AE inspired by the scent bearing the same name accompanies the exhibition.


Rūta (Pentatonic), 2020 Sound, 6:52 ( loop); public address speakers; variable dimensions

Rūta (Pentatonic), 2020
Sound, 6:52 ( loop); public address speakers; variable dimensions

Hexanol I and II, 2019 Steel, meadow; 300 x 100 x 100 cm

Hexanol I and II, 2019
Steel, meadow; 300 x 100 x 100 cm

RYXPER1126AE, Trafo Gallery, Budapest [exhibition view]

RYXPER1126AE, Trafo Gallery, Budapest [exhibition view]

Gusła(fc83756324a62016), 2020 Animated video 6;54 (looped) Holographic fan, 50 x 50 x 5 cm

Gusła(fc83756324a62016), 2020

Animated video 6;54 (looped)

Holographic fan, 50 x 50 x 5 cm

Leave no trace I, 2018 Polished stainless steel, myrrh, LED, sampling bottle, headspace needle, saliva, lighter; 140 x 120 x 40 cm [detail]

Leave no trace I, 2018
Polished stainless steel, myrrh, LED, sampling bottle, headspace needle, saliva, lighter; 140 x 120 x 40 cm [detail]

Leave no trace I, 2018 Polished stainless steel, myrrh, LED, sampling bottle, headspace needle, saliva, lighter; 140 x 120 x 40 cm [detail]

Leave no trace I, 2018
Polished stainless steel, myrrh, LED, sampling bottle, headspace needle, saliva, lighter; 140 x 120 x 40 cm [detail]

Leave no trace I, 2018 Polished stainless steel, myrrh, LED, sampling bottle, headspace needle, saliva, lighter; 140 x 120 x 40 cm [detail]

Leave no trace I, 2018
Polished stainless steel, myrrh, LED, sampling bottle, headspace needle, saliva, lighter; 140 x 120 x 40 cm [detail]

RYXPER 1126AE , Trafo Gallery, Budapest [exhibition view]

RYXPER 1126AE , Trafo Gallery, Budapest [exhibition view]

Hexanol I, 2019 Steel, meadow; 300 x 100 x 100 cm [detail]

Hexanol I, 2019
Steel, meadow; 300 x 100 x 100 cm [detail]

Leave no trace I, 2018 Polished stainless steel, 140x 40 x 40 cm

Leave no trace I, 2018
Polished stainless steel, 140x 40 x 40 cm

RYXPER 1126AE 02:60, 2019 Industrial aroma diffuser mechanism, programmed at 02:60 interval, stainless steel, RYXPER 1126AE fragrance produced in collaboration with International Flavors and Fragrances Inc. NY

RYXPER 1126AE 02:60, 2019
Industrial aroma diffuser mechanism, programmed at 02:60 interval, stainless steel, RYXPER 1126AE fragrance produced in collaboration with International Flavors and Fragrances Inc. NY

RYXPER 1126AE , Trafo Gallery, Budapest [exhibition view]

RYXPER 1126AE , Trafo Gallery, Budapest [exhibition view]

RYXPER 1126AE , Trafo Gallery, Budapest [exhibition view]

RYXPER 1126AE , Trafo Gallery, Budapest [exhibition view]

RYXPER 1126AE , Trafo Gallery, Budapest [exhibition view]

RYXPER 1126AE , Trafo Gallery, Budapest [exhibition view]

Gusła ( fc83756324a62016), 2020 Animated video 6;54, Holographic fan, 50 x 50 x 5 cm

Gusła ( fc83756324a62016), 2020
Animated video 6;54, Holographic fan, 50 x 50 x 5 cm

Gusła ( fc83756324a62016), 2020 Animated video 6;54, Holographic fan, 50 x 50 x 5 cm

Gusła ( fc83756324a62016), 2020
Animated video 6;54, Holographic fan, 50 x 50 x 5 cm

Gusła ( fc83756324a62016), 2020 Animated video 6;54, Holographic fan, 50 x 50 x 5 cm

Gusła ( fc83756324a62016), 2020
Animated video 6;54, Holographic fan, 50 x 50 x 5 cm

RYXPER 1126AE , Trafo Gallery, Budapest [exhibition view]

RYXPER 1126AE , Trafo Gallery, Budapest [exhibition view]

Hexanol II, 2019 Steel, meadow; 300 x 100 x 100 cm

Hexanol II, 2019
Steel, meadow; 300 x 100 x 100 cm

RYXPER 1126AE , Trafo Gallery, Budapest [exhibition view]

RYXPER 1126AE , Trafo Gallery, Budapest [exhibition view]

RYXPER 1126AE , Trafo Gallery, Budapest [exhibition view]

RYXPER 1126AE , Trafo Gallery, Budapest [exhibition view]