Bálint Havas (b. 1971 in Budapest) and András Gálik (b. 1970 in Budapest) have been working together by the name of “Little Warsaw” since 1994. They are among the most respected Hungarian artists on the international scene. Their work Crew Expendable, a reenactment art procedure, was done at the request of the Platán Gallery. The installation begins from a painterly perspective, and takes up modes of expression that relate to current social issues. At the same time, this work makes use of Budapest's own traditions for political art that find their origins in the IPARTERV generation of artists in the 1960s. The title of the installation refers to the film Alien, and through it to a specific social-psychological situation: it attempts to describe what happens when the members of a community become aware of the vulnerability of the whole group, and how this realization affects the relationships its members are developing with one another.
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