Tamás Dezső – Temporary Notes on Fire

The exhibition Temporary Notes on Fire develops and further explores the research of the artist’s 2023 Coda project in new works and new contexts. The conceptual starting point for the exhibition is the series of wildfires that swept through California’s Sierra Nevada in 2020–2021. These fires brought the unpredictable and increasingly uncontrollable nature of the climate catastrophe extending beyond the human scale into particularly sharp focus.

The works on display do not, however, seek to depict fire, nor do they approach it as a spectacle of disaster or an ecological manifesto. Instead, in his factual and precise yet sensory and abstract notes, Tamás Dezső explores the deeper lines of thought opened up by these events.