In Budapest in the late 1980’s, an artists’ group known as Újlak was formed. According to János Sugár’s essay (translated by Christina Rozsnyai), “The Group’s name, which roughly translates into "New Dwelling”, is in itself a poetic act suggesting that it rejects all weakness; it does not want the support that a program would provide.“
The group was at once independent and insular, yet it mainly produced installations in large, indoor spaces for the public. Sugár describes those works as "pieces of an inner-group dialogue” from which an audience of outsiders would be left to cull meaning. Újlak documents some of that dialogue in a series of photographs with explanatory captions.
In Hungarian and English.