Eszter Metzing is a visual artist whose sensuous, body-oriented installations explore the porous boundaries between seeing and touching. Her works revolve around latex and biomorphic forms, evoking themes of feminine rituals, remembrance, and the dissolution of the body’s physical limits. Through the use of borosilicate glass and raw canvas, she conjures a tactile world that feels both archaic and deeply contemporary.
In recent years, Szandra Zságer-Mészáros has taken part in several experimental audiovisual projects, including Transcendent Waves at Trafó and at Inota. In addition to VJing, she creates 3D animations and music videos, where moving images and light engage in dialogue with sculptural forms. In their joint installation with Eszter Metzing, projections appear on organic, biomorphic surfaces, where light challenges the boundaries of body and matter. The visuals pulse and respond to the deep, simmering, subterranean sounds of Balázs Zságer.
EXUVIA is a sensory and intermedial exploration of bodily experience. The title refers to a cast-off outer layer — the remnants of a body in transition — alluding to both abandonment and emergence. The installation features latex-based biomorphic shapes, complemented by elements of borosilicate glass. The juxtaposition of soft, skin-like materials with brittle, fragile textures creates a palpable tension, challenging the viewer’s modes of perception.
Here, projection is not a surface coating but the visible extension of the object’s inner movement. The light textures do not merely illuminate — they seem to live. As if emanating from within the body, they morph and twist across the surface, blurring the line between the physical object and the projected image. Perceptual boundaries shift, and the distinction between material and immaterial becomes uncertain.
EXUVIA invites a non-linear sensory experience of the body, where form is never fixed but constantly transforming — presence is not stable, but permeates through different layers of substance and perception. Light becomes a primary “tissue” that redefines materiality, while the latex membrane behaves like a sensory organ: absorbing, reflecting, and reacting.
The atmosphere of the space is shaped by a composition from Balázs Zságer. The music functions not as a backdrop, but as an active component of the installation. Visual projections are triggered by sonic cues, creating a synchronized, breath-like rhythm between image and sound. EXUVIA emerges not just as a visual spectacle, but as a full-body audiovisual encounter.