Orthodromie

2011, object, giclée print, wood, 100 x 85 x 5 cm

The work Orthodromie juxtaposes two photographs of him, selected by Marcell Esterházy from the archive of 600 photographs which he inherited from his father’s side of the family. One photograph shows the fifteen-year-old Mátyás Esterházy standing in front the family’s castle in Csákvár wearing formal Hungarian dress, while the other picture, taken around 1952, shows him performing manual labour in a melon field during his forced displacement. The lenticular technique allows the photographs to blend into each other, and the two views can be clearly seen only by looking at them from two different angles.