It is hard to begin to imagine András Cséfalvay as anything other than a narrator. We follow his stories through video-operas, short films, and wait with anticipation for the final denouement, the finding of the truth or the explanation. Each shift is viewed from many sides, carefully, slowly, with all the pros and cons, we get further, initial certainties are eroded. The voice of the narrator is that of a preacher, a scientist or a discoverer. Sometimes we are waiting for a miracle, at the same time we are warned against opening "forbidden" doors.
"After the first NEW HORIZONS mission to Pluto and the messages the probe sent, humanity was turned upside down. The newly discovered optical phenomenon and the new perceptions did not only resonate in scientific circles, but sparked an endless number of conspiracy theories. A dark optical illusion, a distorted light effect. With it came a new wave of religious fanatics. Finally, a new mission was sent to put an end to the endless reasoning."
NEW HORIZONS II - a second mission exposing the subject of scientific research and its ethics. The endless scientific and technological growth of mankind is a problematized topic that does not guarantee a positive outcome. Truth and objectivity as distorted variables. The slow pace of the conversation, the suggestive speech, the dialogues and speeches directed to the whole of humanity rather than to individual actors. What would seem obvious and clear at the beginning is neither true nor objective (let alone correct) in the end. The knowledge that scientific shifts are one result of political changes and power struggles to conquer the unknown. In agreement with the deconstructionists, then, it is necessary to produce both truth and error, and to apply this rule to scholarship. In András Cséfalvay's work, art and science are not oppositional but rather sister disciplines.
The responsibility for scientific output and ambition lies only in the hands of a small group of specialists. It is a distant future where astronauts undergoing a mission on the one hand are able and willing to analyse their own visions - they encounter ghosts. But then they open "forbidden" doors, crossing boundaries into the void.
András Cséfalvay (1986) is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava, where he studied at the Department of Painting and Other Media under Daniel Fischer and completed an internship in the studios of Anna Daučíková and Ilona Neméth. He also defended his dissertation last year. In 2009 he received the Oskar Čepan Prize. In addition to fine arts, he is also a musician. Three years ago he released the album Funeral the Musical, a chamber opera that was created in his home studio.