Artist: Ádám Ulbert
Exhibition title: the unnamed signaled: “there are things out there in the fifield of the recognizable.”
Curated by: Peter Bencze
Venue: Longtermhandstand, Budapest, Hungary
Date: August 24 – September 23, 2022
Photography: All images copyright and courtesy of the artist and Longtermhandstand, Budapest
The unnamed fifirst appeared in the year 2025. Their fifirst descent or apparition happened not much after the solar storms started to reach the planet. By that time science has known that solar storms are occurring in 11 years cycles and they could cause and manifold heart related deaths in the human population. Science could foresee the storms and although it couldn’t prognose the unnamed, their arrival wasn’t completely surprising. And still amidst the shocking events of the 20’s the appearance of the them defifinitely contributed to the anticipation of some great collective trauma. Which by that time seemed inevitable. In 2025 no one was expecting that the surges of the Sun will be that intense and no one was preparing for the amount of deaths that happened during the solar events. Humankind had to reassess the conjunction between the Sun and the heart. Maybe this was part of the process how science gradually moved back to it’s alchemical tradition. In this
period it has started to seem that humanity essentially had to rearrange all aspects of it’s bonding to all other beings on the globe. Some people called it ecology and some called it an extended fifield of ecology which might contain the realm of the seemingly inorganic creatures as well. But most defifinitely no one was predicting that those storms might broke some sort of a cosmic plasmatic fifield in which through the unnamed could seeped through and started to emanate their signals. The dimension in which they have appeared is not easy to defifine. The closest how one can imagine is like the opening scene in the Who Framed Roger Rabbit when one of the animated characters steps into the real world and starts to interact with humans. By all means in 2025 by the particular non verbal linguistic codes of biomorphia the unnamed started to send their messages. The hundreds of thousands (according to some calculations maybe even millions) of deaths caused by the solar storms, the continuous malfunctions of the communication technologies of humans and the growing instabilities of other ecological systems, forced humankind to channel into the signals of the unnamed. In one of the fifirst ‘message’ the unnamed signaled: “there are things out there in the fifield of the recognizable.”
Not everyone took these signals, or as we today see it more clearly: suggestions, lightly.
Nowadays we can only guess why was it so hard for mankind to apprehend the existence of the unnamed. Was it the Sun that caused the problems to see ? Or the meeting with the until then unknown entity was simply too astonishing ? …
