Eszter Metzing continues to investigate the relationship between the
conscious and the subconscious in this exhibition, exploring the influence
of childhood and early adulthood on our adult identities. She seeks answers
to three vital questions:
- How do childhood
experiences emerge and affect our adult life?
- To what extent do
these experiences influence our present?
- How aware are we
of these memories and their influences?
Her works are based on her
own childhood memories as seen from her present. These memories blend
together into surreal scenes, thoughts, emotions and sensations deposited in
her psyche during her childhood, and still present in her conscious- and subconscious
self today. Through her artistic research, Metzing also offers her past and
present as a case study to probe theories on how the effects of positive and
negative childhood experiences, small or major traumas affect our lives later
on.
