TRANSPARENCY
histology cassettes, light table, plexiglass, LED strips
2024
Emese Benczúr has a predilection for using short slogan-like texts in her works. Appearing at certain intervals from a colourful array of histology cassettes, the inscription transparency has a complex interpretation. On the one hand, it refers to rendering the disease, the cancer cells visible, to the original function of the cassettes and also to the process of the C80 project with its attempt to make information about cancer, such as diagnostic processes and the stages of cancer, more transparent. On the other hand, it points out the deteriorating condition of the healthcare system, the difficulties of doctor-patient communication and the lack of social transparency regarding cancer itself. In fact, the cry for ‘transparency!’, the desire for transparency can be associated with everything in today’s Hungary from healthcare to arts and politics.
