...in Lea's Apartment
Chili Tomasson is currently working with Lea’s Apartment.
poems on a body and its form
exhibition
1.4.-7.4.2025
Susanna Melem and Chili Tomasson
FKSE,
Rottenbiller u. 35
1077 Budapest
poems on a body and its form unfolds as a dialogue. A collection of poems and notations corresponds with the pictures on the walls. There is a poem to every picture and an image to every note.
In September and October 2024 Susanna Melem and Chili Tomasson participated in an artist in residency program provided by the Budapest Galéria in cooperation with Land Salzburg.
During their stay in Budapest, and as a part of the residency program, Susanna Melem and Chili Tomasson tried to capture the steady pulse of the city;
its squares, sidewalks and underground stations.
They took photographs of walls and water in order to preserve the surface.
They made sound recordings of the traffic and subterranean music in order to remember how it felt.
They listened to passengers talking to each other on the tramway and city bus, they talked to employees in supermarkets, they engaged in conversations with customers in all night-bars, they overheard the reminiscences of dog owners in parks and retired engineers in cafés.
They took notes and collected stories.
They assembled the perspectives of people on their past, their present and their future.
Over the last three months all this material was transformed into several poems, visual art and sound.
Vernissage 1. April 2025 | 19.00
Opening-Reading-Performance
As part of the exhibition opening Susanna Melem and Chili Tomasson will read some assorted notes from their collection of “notes and notations”.
It begins in late August. It begins with hundreds of passengers at the Metro station at Budapest Keleti. It begins with Ismael. It begins with the deposit for non-reusable beverage packaging: 50 Forint per item. (this applies to disposable beverage containers made of: glass, plastic, metal)
Finissage: 8. April 2025 | 19.00
Closing-Reading-Performance
At the closing of the exhibition Susanna Melem and Chili Tomasson will again read some assorted notes from their collection of “notes and notations”.
This time it begins at the end. The end begins at a bar close to Astoria, proceeds at the AQB rooftop, and closes with a bus ride to Móricz Zsigmond körtér.
