Infranesia
July 1 – 31, 2004
INFRANESIA is my country. Infranesia is not too big, however it is not that small. I would rather say that it is not too big. Yet still everything I like lives there.
Many kinds of realities happily exist there. Truths can be found there, some more true than others, some a bit less. As a matter of fact, it is not that complicated. It is just like long learning words. There are – after all – no long words, they only seem long. The trick is to be able to divide the word into recognizable units, many pieces like friendly faces huddled together. Yes, if you can divide a word properly you can generally conquer it. You will be no longer afraid of a long word, and you will be not fooled of a short one. Many of you who are seeking new curiosities will find them on your way.
Inhabitants of Infranesia believe or insist that nothing in the world is without restraint because they are not forced to deny anything, they find everything possible. All the magic of their world consist of the fact that they can desire contradictions, opposites without restriction. You can fly as well without breaking your wing. In this way, all the hearts can be melted like ores.
Inhabitants of Infranesia hold on to their ordinary days, to littleness, to details, to enjoyments. They come and go, wandering about the streets rhythmically as though walking on poems sprinkled before them. They live under the starry shawl that July’s night has laid out for them.
The habitants of Infranesia know everything that I wish to know.
Zsuzsanna Kemenesi, Ph.D. is a photographer and researcher of communication. She completed her doctoral studies in Visual Communication in 2008 at the University of Pécs. She earned a master’s degree in Communication Studies at the Faculty of Humanities of the Janus Pannonius University in Pécs, Hungary, between 1992 and 1998, and another master’s in Art and Visual Education at the Faculty of Fine Art of the Janus Pannonius University between 1996 and 1997. Kemenesi also studied in the Art Institute Indonesia, at the Faculty of Recorded Media Arts, Department of Photography with a scholarship by the Ministry of Education and Culture of Indonesia. Kemenesi exhibited her fine art photography series in Asia and Europe, as well as in America.
She was an Associate Professor of the Photography Department at the Faculty of Art of the University of Kaposvár, Hungary, for twelve years.
In 2008 and 2009, Kemenesi conducted post-doctoral research on ”The Synthesis of Visual and Verbal Knowledge in Art and Communication” at the University of Creation; Art, Design, Music & Social Work, Takasaki Gunma, Japan, within the collaborative research program of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.