Family World
According to John Lennon, “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.” This essential alienation and homelessness in life is, in my opinion, the negative inspiration behind Géza Csősz’s art. Against this external vulnerability, he constructs a visual world in which he finds his place and feels at home. However, this fictional world does not lead to the realm of imagination, but rather to the reconstruction and bending of the unacceptable everyday reality through his large-scale individual style.
The main characters of his own universe are his family – his wife, two children, and his dog – as well as his own unique photographic gaze, attention, and sensitivity. Everything revolves around them, and what happens outside of them only exists in a poetic sense.
This Family World is a loving, playful, kind, human-scale, warm place. It is the kind of place we imagined from our idyllic childhood memories, where life awaits us and wants to shower us with wonderful gifts and great opportunities.
That life awaits us…
Miracles constantly happen in Géza’s pictures: animals become fairytale creatures, the elderly come down from the sky to rejoice in the children, to take care of them and bless them. The children, in turn, enjoy the offered pleasures without a care in the world: swings, lurking, or games. Meanwhile, they see and hear everything, especially the fluttering of the angels’ wings, which fascinates them. They’re not afraid of anything yet.
They’re not afraid of anything yet…
They don’t even notice the extras, the sad adults who even Géza’s fairytale camera can’t really cheer up. They sit alone in dark rooms or waver on the shores of great waters, where clouds and trees ablaze with black flames threaten constantly. They are and are not. They exist, then suddenly disappear. Their existence dissolved into aimlessness, or the creative individual was swept under the indifferent masses.
In Géza’s pictures, hell doesn’t break loose as often as it does in reality – just so the children don’t get scared.
Just so the children don’t get scared…
