Whatever you touch – touches you back

Exhibition

9. 10. 2024, 17.00 / Šopa Gallery, Hlavná 40, Košice

‘Whatever you touch – touches you back’

Ágnes Grélinger, Budapest based performer paraphrases Octavia Butler when thinking about the exhibition. She is coming to Košice to unfold another layer of it. I will speak with Ágnes in a dialogue but we will also experience what we talk about in the second part of the event: What are our strategies of staying present inside everydayness despite monotonous movements of care? How does it feel to give care and to accept it? Led by Ágnes we will come back to our bodies and from this point we will turn our attention to the space and objects in it. What do they need? How do they want us to be with them? Experiencing part of the event is participative.

 

*Agnes was already performing at the opening of my pop-up solo show in FKSE Budapest in may 2023 – the one that was the starting point and preceded the actual exhibition in Košice. Back then in Budapest she was sitting on the ground playing the gradient of tones on the glass of orange juice. From time to time she drank the juice and thus was gradually changing the tone of the space. 

 

When I ask her what she is working on now she answers: I would say I am holding the space; and ‘clearing the body’ while guiding people to become more of who they are; helping them shed and let go of what doesn’t serve them and offer new ways of seeing, new patterns in which they can move through the world with more grace, authenticity and joy. I look for the priorities, the order in which the body, both individual and collective, needs healing. I intentionally connect to nature, the rhythm of nature and forces beyond us and allow inspiration and teachings to find me through paying attention and connecting with people across generations. 

 

I warmly invite you 

Simona

 

Ágnes Grélinger graduated from The Danish National School of Performing Arts in dance and choreography. She has created community, experimental, public performances and workshops in international and domestic collaborations, such as With open doors to spaces without walls. She is working with care, connection, and intimacy as choreographic themes. She is teaching improvisation, somatic self-awareness and facilitating women’s circles. She enjoys holding space for people and wishes for more trauma-informed awareness. In Budapest, she founded the KK32 flat, a community space, where she works as a Bodytalk practitioner, treating people in a holistic way (body-consciousness-psyche-energy) and studies shamanism. She is concerned with the collective body and social traumas, which she researches both as a healer and as an artist.

The program of this gallery are supported using public funding by Slovak Arts Council. The Slovak Arts Council is the main partner of the project. 

The project is also financially supported by City Košice.