Protekt
reflects on the many parallel narratives of deeply fragmented Hungarian society, which never seem to cross in an intersection. These incompatible ways of thinking, interpretations and misconceptions are constituted by the fields of party-political commitments, quasi-ideologies and personality cults.
The focus of the exhibition is the
manifold
phenomenon
of
protection
: what are the things we should preserve, what we should transfer, or rather what are those we should promote to be forgotten before long. What historical moments deserve a monument, what poems should we recite on national holidays, what artworks shall be presented in our museums. Who are the examples that should be followed and who are those who we evoke only as deterrent? When posing the questions of who/what, from what and how should be protected, the possibly given answers provide clean-cut images of enemy construction and concrete suggestions how these issues could be solved.
These answers function as the cohesive forces of different groups of society, and they constitute the masses out of the separated individuals. At the same time these cohesive forces also determine who and on what purpose would be excluded from a given community.
