Tamas Dezsö and eszter Szablyár
March–May 2023

Tamas Dezsö (b. 1978) is a visual artist living and working in Budapest, Hungary. His work examines the personal identity of humans and nonhumans, their persistence through time and the limits of human perception. Dezsö’s practice focuses on issues of materiality, temporality and vegetal existence, as well as questions raised by ecological concern, which he explores through photographs, sculptures and installations. His work has been exhibited worldwide and has been published in TIME, The New York Times, National Geographic, Harper's Magazine, GEO, The Guardian, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, The Sunday Times, Le Monde Magazine, Wired, The British Journal of Photography and many others. He is represented by the Robert Koch Gallery in San Francisco and the Einspach Fine Art & Photography in Budapest.

Eszter Szablyár (b. 1975) is a writer and poet, living and working in Budapest, Hungary. She graduated with a master’s degree in literature at the Faculty of Humanities of Budapest’s Eötvös Loránd University and later gained a PhD in Law at the Faculty of Law of the same university. As a journalist on the staff of Hungary’s leading daily, and later that of the most influential weekly, she has conducted interviews with the world’s preeminent writers, historians, sociologists, architects and designers, both in America and Europe. As a freelance journalist until 2015 she examined the cultural and sociological processes and transformations taking place in Eastern Europe. She is currently working on her first novel and first book of poetry.