Az Elmúlt jelen nyomában. Reflexiók egy kiállításra
In Search of the Present of the Past Tense: Reflections on Building an Exhibition

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the workflow and the main concepts that led to the 2020 exhibition focusing on the recent history of the Hungarians in Romania, titled The Present of the Past Tense. The title is a reference to Reinhart Koselleck’s metahistorical work and suggests that remnants of the communist heritage and of the regime change that occurred in 1989 still persist and effect our present in many ways. The project’s website and the exhibition were designed by a team commissioned by the Eurotrans Foundation, thus outside of a museum or an institutional context, and the result is exhibited in Romanian cities inhabited by Hungarians in special architectural contexts: within the iconic buildings of the communist regime. The text consists of the reflections written by the members of the team: a historian, an artist, a researcher of visual culture and a researcher in the field of cultural studies.

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