Kopin Katalin (szerk.): Test objektív. A test reprezentációja a kortárs művészetben - Ferenczy Múzeum kiadványai, C. sorozat: Katalógusok 5. (Szentendre, 2013)

The portrait series entitled Iconostasis by Balázs Telek focuses on suggesting time perspective and mapping human relations. The gesture of placing portraits of parents and children next to each other evokes a sort of retrospection and prospection from his models and the spectators alike. By complementing each other, the seemingly static portraits interact and produce narratives. The profane iconostasis is penetrated by the essence of the past and the perspective of the future. The naked models without mundane attributes and civilisational stigmata communicate and send messages only through their physical characteristics, features, look and head posture. The identical, inherited gestures and identical features referring to each other often differ only in softness and hardness. As time goes by, the children’s sweet look becomes determined, soft and relaxed features form a sharp frame, the smooth, unmarked surface of the skin becomes the furrowed mirrorof the character. The bipolarworks attempt to contrast and mount past and future, youth and old age, rendering palpable the stages of human life.

The applied photography technique is twofold: the artist documented the portraits appearing on the gridded surface of the back of the large analogue camera. The mirror image appearing on the focusing screen upside down, projected with stronger light in the middle, is evoked by custom made light boxes.