SABINE, SABINE

Hajnal Németh, “Sabine, Sabine”, 2019, installation, photo panel
Exhibition view: EBENSPERGER Berlin, 2019
Photo by Sebastian Hoffmann

Installation as part of the solo exhibition “Simultaneous City” by Hajnal Németh at EBENSPERGER Berlin in 2019.

The series of 25 photographs titled “Sabine, Sabine” (2019) forms the first segment of the project “Simultaneous City” (2019-2021). Similarly to mass-printed street posters, the work repeats a single motif in a contiguous row. However, the repetition is illusory, as each poster is minimally different: they depict 25 phases of a single movement. The head of a young blonde woman turns from right to left, thus the first and last image in the series shows two opposite profiles, while the central images show the face in frontal view.

The words and fragments of sentences printed on the images, read together, form a quoted extract from Sándor Tar’s poem „Blonde City”.

Hungarian writer Sándor Tar worked in Dresden as a guest labourer between 1967 and 1970, and then as an instructor at a workers’ hostel in the same city between 1975 and 1976. Drawing on his experiences of living conditions at the workers’ hostel, he wrote his sociographical essay “Prospectus” in Dresden, last published by the Déri Museum in 2017. The same volume also includes the poem “Blonde City”, a 22-page work originally written in 1969 – a personal portrait of society and history, reflecting the world from the depths of the psyche in the light of love for a German woman.

Hajnal Németh, “Sabine, Sabine”, 2019, installation, photo panel
Exhibition views: EBENSPERGER Berlin, 2019
Photos by Sebastian Hoffmann

Hajnal Németh, “Sabine, Sabine”, 2019
Installation, photo panel, 25 fine art prints mounted on aluminium, 1250 x 70 cm
Based on the poem “Blonde City” by Sándor Tar (1969, Dresden)
Part of the project “Simultaneous City” (2019 – 2021)

Special thanks to Péter Barta – private collector.