The starting point of Kincső Bede’s work is, on one hand, the ever-present and   eternal dilemma: how can generations with different historical experiences live   together and collaborate within the family and communities, in a broader sense. The other is to confront and deal with the legacy of socialism, that unspoken historical past which creates tensions within Eastern European societies in a radically changed socio-economic and personal context. She responds to the issues that interest and affect us all deeply with a mode of expression and formal language characteristic of her generation, while evoking at the  same time topos of cultural history in a very authentic way, creating an individual mythology. She approaches her subject boldly and concisely to present the ambivalent relationship of children to their parent’s traumas, while also giving personal insight into old and new problems. It is reassuring to see how even the most brutal phenomena become dusty and banal over time,   while we can observe with some scepticism that even though each generation gives birth to another, each of them somehow closes in on its problems.

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