Lajos Csontó

After high school, Lajos Csontó studied jewelry making, then earned a degree in graphic arts at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts. He developed his unique style in the mid-1990s. His photo-based works (installations and videos), often inspired by his own archive or found photographs, characteristically feature seemingly clichéd, enigmatic textual elements that baffle the viewer. He creates conceptual works that subtly emphasize self-contradiction and are made up of an intriguing, ironic compound of the visual and the verbal. The video works he has been creating since the mid-2000s are a continuation of his text-images; they are the parcels, waiting to be unwrapped, in a visual diary of condensed narratives.