Kata Legrady

The sculptures, photographs, and drawings of Kata Legrady (b. Barcs, Hungary, 1974; lives and works in various cities around the world) confront the viewer with symbols of violence that are at once luxury articles and the objects of infantile desires. Today, however, weaponry is hardly the most important tool in the exercise of power: it has been complemented and even superseded by capital, assets, and structures of economic dependence. Kata Legrady's art reflects this state of social affairs--a situation in which prosperity and luxury on one side of the great divide equals violence and exploitation on the other.