Anna
Kereszty
Born in 1997 in Budapest, Hungary
Lives and works in Paris, France
Anna Kereszty’s practice explores memory and time through intimate visual essays. Drawing on historical research and family photographic archives, she investigates the narrative and fictional potential of photography.
With “Papegai”, Anna Kereszty transforms a daily observation into a poetic investigation. From the window of her Paris apartment, she watches ring-necked parakeets gathering around bird feeders that were installed by a neighbour. Their constant presence within this domestic setting catches the artist’s sustained attention, where what initially seemed anecdotal gradually asserts itself, becoming an object of study and projection. This fixed viewpoint becomes a framework for careful, naturalistic, and contemplative observation.
Through tightly framed compositions and dense foliage, her photographs erase the usual markers of the city. The parakeets, captured in close frontal proximity, appear within an indeterminate space, shifting the viewer’s perception: what belongs to the urban environment takes on the appearance of a tropical landscape. This uncertainty opens up a space for projection—do these birds still inhabit an unfamiliar place, or have they fully adjusted to the city as a new ecosystem?
— Marilou Thirache
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