Peter Puklus

Peter Puklus
The Hero Mother – How to build a house, 2016
Installation, photographs, mixed media, dimensions variable
Courtesy of the artist and Glassyard Gallery, Budapest

Presented as an installation in the form of sculptural, photographic and performance-based works, Peter Puklus’ The Hero Mother: How to Build a House is rich in metaphor, symbolism, allegory and humour. The photographs are shot entirely in the artist’s daily, family environment, his house and his studio. The Hero Mother deconstructs and questions the dynamics and stereotypes regarding social gender and role clichés within the traditional, heterosexual family structure: the masculine pater familias and master-builder or provider and the heroic mother as muse and primary carer/nurturer. Puklus pinpoints the challenges related to family today, in a demanding and rapidly changing environment and suggests the reversal of stereotypes and the introduction of alternative models of parenthood and family relations. The broadened photograph field becomes a critical, subversive comment on contemporary relationships, family, and gender and sexual politics.

Though photography lies at the centre of Peter Puklus’ work, his practice mines territories beyond the photographic frame by deploying sculptures, objects, paintings, installations, drawings and, mixing the different genres and medias and making them relate to each other. Whether in the gallery space or in a photo-book form, storytelling plays a substantial role in his expanded photography.

Biography

Peter Puklus lives and works in Budapest, Hungary. He studied photography at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest (HU) and new media design at the École National Supérieur de Création Industriel in Paris (FR). His recent solo exhibitions include “The Epic Love Story of a Warrior (Kunsthaus Essen, Essen,DE, 2019), Life is Techno (ParisBerlin Fotohaus, Rencontres d’Arles, Arles, FR, 2019) and One and a half meter (Folia Gallery, Paris, FR, 2018). Puklus’ project “The Hero Mother – How to build a house received the Grand Prix Images Vevey 2017/2018. Puklus is a returning lecturer and workshop leader in photography at MOME, Budapest and CEPV, Vevey, Switzerland.

www.peterpuklus.com

 

 

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