Jama: Red card
Catalogue, 1998, 24 pages, 37 pictures, bilingual (Hungarian-English)
“Good to have the silence. Answer for the photos, answer for the work and answer for the life that
Antal Jama Farkas lives. How would he have lived in the last century or in the previous eras? I might
be wrong with the answer, still I am saying in the same way. I know that he’s got not only spiritual
but even physical contact with his own photos. This is his life-style, this is how everything is around
him; this is how he handles the time… He finds it important to have the freedom of movement, passing
through betwen the genres… He puts the camera down and puts his things in front. Spaces are created in
which relics disappear and reappear again and again. Spaces are transformed into living areas and he
talks to the figures composing the photos either it’s an object or a human. He lives together with the
cardboard man, with the cogwheel fruit and the painted cake… He looks out of the picture from time to
time. Humour and irony appear in his absurd world. One is easy and laughing, the other is aggressive
and destroying. We, the audience are meant to make the choice. He exposes and a new game begins.”
Kopek Gábor