Connecting several branches of art, the first joint exhibition of Mária Roskó and Zsófia Ádám addresses the question of conventions and the freedom of creation. The (un)limited freedom dance performance and musical improvisation performed in the space by Ayumi Toyabe and Bálint Bolcsó defined by the installations and the jewelry as integral part of the exhibition. Regarding the history of art, the jewelry pieces make reference to the gesture painting in abstract expressionism, which encourages the freedom of expression of emotions through movement. The installations created transform the exhibition space into an imaginary landscape.

The jewelry, the installations and the exhibition space limit the dancer's possibilities and guide her movements. While improvisation gives freedom, the pieces of jewelry constantly require to revise the relationship between jewelry and the body: some movements are encouraged, others are made more difficult for the performer. After the performance act, the traces left on the installations capture the act of the performance, and pieces of jewelry are reinterpreted as tools of the performance.

Mária Roskó's hybrid objects focus on the traditional function of jewelry, also addressing traditional artistic practices and the act of tracing. The exhibits are in transition between pieces of jewelry and art tools (brushes, pencils, pastels) that have become normative tools of artistic tracing over the centuries. The objects reinterpret the traditional forms of jewelry and art tools, keeping a certain distance from both. The shape of the objects invites the wearer/user to break the rules set by the pieces and to find alternative ways of wearing and holding them through uncommon forms of using the human body. The objects, however, make references to both the history of jewelry and of the history of art. In the case of the history of jewelry, the pieces may evoke signet rings (whose function is to trace).

Zsófia Ádám’s exhibited pieces are in a complex conceptual and formal relationship with each other, and also enter into a dialogue with the jewelry on display. The installations are based on basic shapes that are in positive-negative, complementary, or part-whole relation with each other, and reoccur in each object on a different scale, color or surface. The complementary colors used by the artist also reflect the colors of the exhibited jewelry, just as the painted metal colors of some installations evoke the material of the pieces of jewelry.

Dancer Ayumi Toyabe paints, draws and leaves marks on the surface of the installations using the exhibited pieces of jewelry, accompanied by Bálint Bolcsó's electronic musical improvisation.

The international aspect of the event is that Mária Roskó will represent Hungary at the central exhibition of the Athens Jewelry Week 2020 as the winner of last year's Jewelry Night AJW AWARD.