Manchester
School of Art
MA Show
2013
Fri 27 September —
Sun 13 October
10.00—16.00hrs
An exhibition of work
by postgraduate
students of —
- Architecture & Urbanism
- Art As Environment
- Design
- Design & Art Direction
- Filmmaking
- Fine Art
- Landscape Architecture
- Media Arts
- Photography
- Textiles
- Three Dimensional Design
- Visual Culture
Ilona Kiss
Maps, questions of places and where we belong have always played an important role in my work. Maybe or because I have changed my base repeatedly, I am drawn to the ambiguity and the unfamiliar. Often, I found myself in situations that made me feel uncomfortable and strange. The sense of adventure and the poetic quality of uncertain situations have left their mark and influence my work as such.
The German term 'Heimat', loosely translated as 'homeland', expresses the way in which my drawings and paintings engage with memory, the relation to historic events and beauty. Even though my work engages with more traditional genres like landscape and the romantic era, it has a tendency to disorientate the viewer, to leave questions unanswered.
I develop my paintings through initial collages using photos and found newspaper images, blurred and flattened by the process of selection, reduced to a gloomy palette.
