Shoppingcart
„Shoppingcart is a series of large collages featuring potted plants. The density of the compositions and the boldness of the colours are reminiscent of advertising posters and underline our ambiguous relationship to plants, which we consider more as mere commodities than as living beings.
Baranya questions our understanding of nature and its place in our daily lives.“ The artistic practice of Magdalena Baranya (1981) is not limited to photography but characterised by the convergence of different media such as video, sculpture, and digital prints on various supports. From an ever-expanding archive of images, she produces collages in the form of posters, wallpaper, scarves, moving image montages and even hand-knotted carpets. As a sculptor, she inorporates recycled material into ceramics, concrete, and textiles. Magdalena Baranya is interested in the private, the banal, the domestic. The protagonists of her works are ordinary objects that she recycles. Collected, forgotten, they are charged with a personal, sentimental value.“
Marie Le Mounier, 2022