MIMICRY  As if objects were meanings

MIMICRY As if objects were meanings

Johanna Hullár

MIMICRY As if objects were meanings

Nominated by Photo Elysée, 2026

‘Mimicry’ is inspired by how seeing something in something else affects our mind and world-view. How objects resemble nature, how we are always looking for similarities and a connection, a nexus, a unifying reason to objects. How objects can develop characters and capacity for mimicry, while their meanings are constantly challenged as their visual aspect changes. I’d like to invite the viewer to my colourful environment, to discover something they have seen before: “Is what I see exactly the same, or has its meaning shifted?”* Mimicry as protection, deception, survival strategy, I am looking at emotional stages of isolation, destruction, loneliness, presented as a multidisciplinary installation. Freezing and becoming fluid again, sensing simultaneity in time, through the processes of water and other natural and man-made elements. Mixing and manipulating the ingredients they are becoming metaphors and protagonists of the abstract mise en scènes and corrupted still-life landscapes. Are they longing for an unseen new environment or resembling the memory, a feeling of the lost paradise? I'm fascinated by the metamorphoses water is capable of going through, capturing a moment, creating an own organism - nature morte - frozen in time. The imaginary worlds are conserved in death, slowly melting away and becoming life again. A place yet to be discovered.