hunor Tóth
Photography MA
Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest
Graduates: 2024
Specialisms: Photography / Fine Art / Film
My location: Budapest, Hungary
hunor Tóth
First Name: hunor
Last Name: Tóth
University / College: Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest
Course / Program: Photography MA
Graduates: 2024
Specialisms: Photography / Fine Art / Film
My Location: Budapest, Hungary
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About
Hunor Tóth (b. 2000) is a visual artist from Romania, currently residing and creating back and forth between Budapest, his home village of Tăureni (RO), and Odorheiu Secuiesc (RO). In 2024, he graduated from the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in Budapest with a Master's degree in Photography. In his artistic practice he constantly focuses on rural life and its various aspects. He is interested in exploring and documenting rural life through photography to highlight rural traditions and culture. He is interested in how rural communities redefine, adapt and change in the face of contemporary challenges. His work combines staged and documentary photography. This combination is a defining element of his artistic practice.
Disintegrating communities, redefined rural landscape, memories, family, faith, and uncertainty. The contemporary village image diverges from the stereotypes of impoverished, elderly laborers or an idealized countryside; instead, it embodies internal conflicts, an uncertain future, and a reality unrecognizable to outsiders' perception. Within rural families, previous generations instinctively passed on not only agricultural and farming knowledge, but also community values, village life, and local culture. Today, this hereditary process is completely questionable and subversive. My generation is the first to occupy a decisive place in the outcome of this changing hereditary process. Current visual research explores the intergenerational dynamics in this period, focusing on the youth in order to explore the notion of village, village identity and home.
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