309 Artist in Home shares spouse and children background via artwork and neighborhood

As a teen, Eniko Ujj used time in the Pensacola punk scene heading to demonstrates. She returned to the 309 Punk Residence as the January artist in home.

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“My first time likely to Sluggo’s was when I was like 16. My mom dropped me off and (I bear in mind) heading to Stop of Line all the time. Especially for poetry nights that applied to be on Wednesdays, and then I would just come below for reveals as properly,” claimed Ujj. “It was certainly part of my upbringing. The various spots, like the punk-owned sites and 309, just since I liked music and I favored art. And people have been the kind of locations that had occasions going on like that.”

Ujj was born in Hungary in advance of her spouse and children moved to the United States when she was 9 months previous. She graduated with a Bachelor in Fine Arts from the University of West Florida. All through the pandemic, she commenced a vocation as a mural artist.

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With the 309 residency, Ujj took the opportunity to do the job on a video installation undertaking and revisit oil painting.

“I experienced a online video installation job that I’ve been wanting to do that I recorded when I was in Hungary this previous year, browsing my spouse and children,” said the artist. “And so I was like, oh, this is this kind of a great possibility to at last be able to present that perform. For the reason that you really don’t normally get spaces for set up movie. But I also desired to do a thing else all through the time of the residency. So, I resolved to oil paint, which I have not accomplished in like 5 many years. Just because oil is…you want the place for it. And I really don’t actually have a studio area for oil at my home. And I was like, this is these a excellent option to go back again to this medium and to get the job done with that yet again.”

To put together for her time at 309, Ujj go through the oral history, “A Punkhouse in the Deep South.” It encouraged her to host gatherings that introduced the general public in to working experience her art, as nicely as her Hungarian lifestyle.

“That’s what form of pushed me to do much more open studio activities, like the drawing club, (and) of wanting to generate a perception of local community,” said Ujj. “And the potluck as very well — since 309 has a extensive history of doing potlucks and just feeding men and women. I wished to share my Hungarian heritage by means of food stuff as properly. For the reason that my Hungarian heritage is so a part of the parts that I’m doing work on, and meals is such a good way to connect with men and women.”

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For Saturday’s closing present, Ujj will host an artist converse. Within a single of the rooms of the dwelling will be a online video installation with footage of a hiking location in the Mecsek Mountains A put the place her grandmother, an avid hiker, wishes her ashes to be unfold when she dies.

“I do that hike every single time I go back as a form of pre-grieving,” said Ujj. “And this earlier summer season when I went there, I took a bunch of video clip footage of the hike, like me going and videoing the small bugs that I noticed and the diverse flowers and matters like that. And at the top of it are these outdated Roman ruins that are magnificent. And that is where by she desires her ashes unfold. So I did a minor ceremony working with some of her embroidery thread, and I braided it into some grasses.”

Part of the installation functions a mobile phone contact concerning Ujj and her grandmother talking about her adore of hiking. Whilst the dialogue is in Hungarian, a translation of the conversation will be a part of the exhibit.

Family is a continual topic in Ujj’s work. For the duration of her residency, she painted a collection of portraits of relatives users. As a total-time artist, she relished the time to do the job on anything private that could hook up with individuals.

“What truly fuels me is my more conceptual art, but you don’t automatically make money off that,” reported Ujj. “I are not able to market a movie set up piece, but I appreciate sharing that variety of function. I’ve noticed that that tends to be the most meaningful function to other folks and tends to aid them link to me and to locate this mutual, I will not know, catharsis by way of the get the job done alone. So, I am quite grateful to have this chance to this thirty day period and this residency to really aim on that side of my artwork.”

Eniko Ujj’s closing exhibition, “Threads,” is 6-9 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 27 at the 309 Punk Residence, located at 309 6th St. In February, the 309 Artists in Home will be Jennie Andrews and Crystal Treamer. For additional data, go to 309punkproject.org.

Maria Lewis

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