Hungarian artist Tamás Dezső's exhibition ‘Hypothesis: Everything is Leaf', exploring the connections between the living world and man, will be on view at the Capa Center in Budapest from September 22 to December 23.
The series, which explores the complex relationships of the living world, was inspired by the artist's philosophical studies and is seen as a series of thought experiments as he wants to show the continuous change that characterizes all living beings physically and humans intellectually.
According to curator István Virágvölgyi, "in his latest work, Tamás Dezső investigates the personal identity of all living creatures, including humans. What is the mysterious and inexplicable link that connects personalities of all living entities throughout life? We are in constant change physically: similarly to other living beings, almost all molecules of a human body turn into new ones continuously. We are also in constant transformation intellectually: our way of thinking changes throughout our whole life. So what, then, is identity? How can we identify ourselves as the very same person all along despite these changes? Looking at ourselves at the ages of ten and fifty there is more difference than similarity. A seed and a tree with widely spreading branches grown from the seed do not apparently hold anything in common, yet we are talking about the same living organism."
Studying the issues of identity, Tamás Dezső finds the metaphor of human existence in plants, which are built up from the same material and similar structures as ourselves. Every living being – whether human or non-human – is constituted by the same material, which is almost the same age as the universe. In other words, everything that is living represents a transitionary stage of an immense metamorphosis. The elements making up our bodies have already been parts of other bodies at a different place and time, and they are in us only temporarily: we are mediatory media of alien materials. So a separate environment does not exist, there are only various existing, living creatures in infinite forms, the curator adds.


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