According to the Japanese legend, the one who folds a thousand origami cranes may make a wish to the crane, which lives for a thousand years.

This tradition becomes the symbolic basis of the project „Thousand Paper Cranes for Budapest”, during which I folded a thousand paper cranes, which I printed one-by -one as papercuts. Each of the signed prints (along with the number of the crane) – to which a brief description of the project was attached as well – were put in envelopes. Together with the helpers of the project, we placed these envelopes at a thousand random points of Budapest.

What kind of life does the artwork start to live when it is left alone, exposed to coincidence? Where does it arrive?

The aim of making these prints is to have the opportunity to question the being  and legitimacy of traditional reproducting processes of printmaking , or reproducting itself – although the thousand cranes are almost alike, they are unique, they were printed one-by one, and only one print is made of each. This leads to questions of originality, connections between originality and reproducting processes.  How does the medium find its justification in the artwork, might it not be an impasse using it aimlessly, only for itself?

Exhibiting artist: Vidra Réka

Coordinator:  Varga Krisztina

Thanks for the cooperation: Garai Rebeka, Gráf Dóra, Kiss Ágnes, Kollár Zsófia, Mulasics Manna, Szilák Andrea, Szitás Judit, Sztefanu Marina, Tettamanti Ádám, Török Virág, Cristian Staicu, Varga Krisztina, Vidra Annamária, Vidra Sándor

Photo by emesekiss