A Place Between

Today, few words are used and discussed more frequently than 'identity'. You can identify with anything and become part of anything. Yet you always belong somewhere. You breathe the air of a certain place; you are so rooted there that you call it 'home'. The essence of home is created by a collection of scents, memories, emotions and people.

Today, this concept is being tested more than ever before. Physical nomadism is not being replaced by the digital world; it is being multiplied. Differences are blurring on multiple levels simultaneously. The world, whose 'flatness' has already been described, is taking on new forms and dimensions.

Rita Koszorús responds to these changes in her paintings. She creates her own visual language through which she communicates this phenomenon. It is a language without a fixed anchor, emerging in the interspace. It is independent of territory, native language, and cultural context.

Koszorús does not work with symbols, references or metaphors from 'universal' or Western folklore. Instead, she emphasises colour, shape, and sometimes even the mechanical depth of the image layer. In this way, she highlights her unique mode of expression. It is impossible to say whether the image or collage was created in Bratislava, Budapest, Berlin or Paris. The only important thing is whether its unique language has developed, shifted or undergone a subtle correction.

The author's creative output fluctuates according to her current sensitivity, mood and perceptions. Although the visual whole is often based on specific mental or visual models — sometimes even figurative ones — it is often subjected to 'particle' fragmentation.

However, this de-identification of form does not manifest uncertainty; rather, it demonstrates the ability to integrate the surrounding world — both internal and external — into a firmly anchored authorial statement. Reading these layers is neither easy nor automatic. Nor should it be. Form is not subordinate to the viewer. Rather, it is an authentic form of communication between the author and the world — a dialogue that takes place on a hidden, linear timeline. Born in the interspace, it is broadcast to the world.

It is specifically coded and clearly formulated, and is understandable to those who can defragment not only the initial visual image, but also the conceptual framework from which it grows.