Kamilla Szíj’s art is characterised by minimalism, the restrained use of materials and colours (monochromy) and the exclusion of narrativity, as well as the coexistence of reduction and infinite abundance, the part and the whole, conceptuality and subtle sensuality, order and chaos, and the micro- and macrocosm. Her oeuvre is a series of consistent and consecutive steps in which her wandering themes keep reappearing with slight alterations and shifts. Her working method is characterised by systematic organisation, ease, endless patience and humility. The artist draws in an almost monomaniac manner, and almost exclusively works with abstract shapes (lines, streaks of lines and infinitely extending points). Her artworks materialise only after every fragment falls into place in her mind. Szíj’s graphic whirls, built up of densely structured webs of lines, network-like organisms and micro- and macroscopic structures, do not refer to the outside world but represent the stages of the inner self’s journey alone.
Kriszta Dékei
