Ádám Ulbert: the Salamander told me...

„For the forthcoming epoch for the salamander” (solo exhibition at ENA Budapest)
„With this piece, much like my previous works of mine, what I am mainly interested in is how a certain natural phenomena is culturally interpreted. How culture serves as a domesticating force over nature. And often how this strive for domestication of nature fails. I’m curious about belief systems, cultures and times that are dealing with the problematics of intuition, transgression, non binary thinking, or the implosion of the conscious anthropocentric strata. In situations where the problem of taming nature - by nature I mean both physical and metaphysical natures - don't succeed and creates tales instead of certainties. I find it fascinating how often in these moments of shattered or collapsing states, our human-ness starts to share ontology with the 'other' more-than-human entities - like animals, plants and minerals. „