In Cross by the Baltic Sea Koncz places characters familiar from his paintings, figures turning away with downcast eyes, in front of a TV set. The spectacle on the screen is monotonous and uneventful: it is a seaside where only the noise of the waves breaks the silence. Several different connections may be posited between the large figures created to different scales, and the virtual image. The human figures may be interpreted as parts of the seaside environment presented by the video, that is, as participants in the virtual reality transmitted by the video, on the other hand, they may be regarded as real characters who turn to or turn away from an image which is outside their reality. Following this train of thought the role of the installation’s viewer is open to interpretation, too.
Whatever relation there may be between the three figures and the seaside landscape, the installation has the air of longing, uncertainty, and melancholy so characteristic of Koncz’s works.
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