Zsófia Keresztes Hungarian, b. 1985

Zsófia Keresztes (b. 1985 in Budapest) lives and works in Budapest. She studied at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts. Keresztes creates large sculptural works and installations out of a combination of materials that straddle identities both virtual and real. These are often finished in pastel hues of light blue, beige, coral, and pink, adding to their appropriation of actual and imagined bodies. The large scale of these works belies their playful, otherworldly levity, open and porous to the spaces and viewers that surround them, linking disparate forms into precarious chains full of associative potential and structural insubordination. In recognition of her capacity to transform sites and contexts into imagined worlds of part-objects and bodily attachments, Keresztes was chosen to represent her native Hungary at the 2022 Venice Biennale.