Mónika Sziládi
Untitled (Blonde), 2011, archival inkjet print, 20 x 35.3 in.
Humble Arts Foundation is pleased to announce Mónika Sziládi as the fall 2012 recipient of the New Photography Grant for her series Wide Receivers.
Statement: In Wide Receivers I am interested in how society and human behavior are becoming simultaneously tribalized and atomized amidst the ever increasing noise of mass (over)communication, digital media, and self-broadcasting. My photographs are digital collages constructed from images that I shoot at networking events, conventions, and at meet-ups of subcultures that were formed and (or) are operating as a result of social connectivity on the Internet. Compositing and cropping the source photos heightens the intragroup dynamics and throws off the viewer’s ability to find a primary point-of-view, thus generating an underlying disruption: the participants, while appearing connected within a social network, also appear atomized in a contrived pose or uncertain gesture.
Untitled (Ribs), 2009, archival inkjet print, 20 x 36 in.
Untitled (Sweet Like Candy), 2009, archival inkjet print, 20 x 40 in.
Untitled (Video Games), 2011, archival inkjet print, 20 x 39.3 in.
Untitled (Hearts and Guns), 2010, archival inkjet print, 20 x 38 in.
Untitled (Pledge), 2010, archival inkjet print, 20 x 38 in.
Untitled (Smile), 2009, archival inkjet print, 20 x 43 in.
Untitled (Bar), 2009, archival inkjet print, 20 x 42 in.
Untitled (Abs), 2011, archival inkjet print, 20 x 36 in.
Untitled (Laptop), 2011, archival inkjet print, 20 x 34 in.
Mónika Sziládi was born and raised in Budapest, Hungary and lives in New York. She holds an MFA in Photography from Yale (2010) and a Maitrise in Art History and Archaeology from Sorbonne, Paris (1997). In 2008 she received the Gesso Foundation Fellowship to attend Skowhegan and she is a 2012 resident at Smack Mellon. She is a winner of The Philadelphia Museum of Art Photography Competition (2010), a recipient of the Alice Kimball English Traveling Fellowship (2010) and a Juror’s Pick by Julie Saul and Alec Soth, Work-in-Progress Prize, Daylight/CDS Photo Awards. Selected exhibitions include Point of Purchase, DUMBO Arts Center, NYC (2006); Lost and Found, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany (2007); Designations, NT Gallery, Bologna, Italy (2008); Market Forces, Carriage Trade Gallery, NYC and Galerie Erna Hecey, Brussels (2009); US Featured Exhibition, Flash Forward Festival, Toronto (2010); 31 Women in Art Photography, Hasted Kraeutler, NYC. (2012).