Eszter Magyar

#1 min Eszter Magyar

18. 10. 2025

Eszter Magyar, Makeupbrutalism, since 2018
Eszter Magyar, Makeupbrutalism, since 2018
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Makeupbrutalism

Budapest-born, London-based conceptual artist and former mua Eszter Magyar works with the face as a site of conflict, between surface and self, expectation and reality, pressure and resistance. Her ongoing project Makeupbrutalism uses makeup and photography to examine the aesthetics of being human under systems that demand smoothness, control, and constant improvement.
Magyar’s approach rejects beauty as a product or transformation. Instead, she treats makeup as raw material – a way to interrupt, stain or document the body. Each image is a small gesture of refusal: smudges are left uncleaned, wrinkles uncorrected, compulsions unhidden. The work speaks in quiet codes – cracked textures, obsessive markings, broken symmetry – drawing attention to what is usually erased.

All imeges: Eszter Magyar, Makeupbrutalism, since 2018

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#49 Talk Together

This issue explores language – its forms, possibilities, and limits. We look at how we communicate in the digital space, how the language of artificial intelligence changes our notions of creativity, and how visual images can replace words. You will discover why language is never neutral and how it shapes identity, creates inequalities, and opens paths to liberation. The issue features a reflection by bell hooks, the artistic practice of Eszter Magyar, projects documenting the Roma community in Brno, and visual essays by Claudia Larcher and Tabor Robak. The magazine presents language as a tool of communication, power, and resistance and invites you to reflect on what it truly means to talk to one another today.

Prague Hosts Leading Voices in AI: Creativity, Technology, and Art in Dialogue

#3 min Fotograf Zone

Prague Hosts Leading Voices in AI: Creativity, Technology, and Art in Dialogue

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Experts and leading voices of the international AI scene will once again gather in Prague for the Fotograf Zone AI Forum. On Tuesday, November 4, the hall of Studio FAMU will transform into a platform inviting interdisciplinary collaboration and open discussion on the possibilities of using AI in art, technology, and social development. Don’t miss an evening that will reveal where our relationship with artificial intelligence is heading in the near future.

Tamar Moyzes & Shlomi Yaffe – The Political Power of Mycelium

#5 min Jitka Hlaváčková, Tamara Moyzes, Shlomi Yaffe

Tamar Moyzes & Shlomi Yaffe – The Political Power of Mycelium

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Modern science recognises the underground network of fungal fibres, or mycelium, as the “brain of ecosystems”, an alternative to centralised consciousness. It offers a fertile ground for artistic and philosophical inquiry, stimulating deliberations on types of intelligence, models of communication, and the legitimacy of an anthropocentric worldview. Mycelium – worshipped in the religion of the goddess Lacteria, invented as part of the artistic work of Tamara Moyzes – is an empathetic structure, able to sow the seeds of functional and resilient bonds into the cracks of broken social systems.