Alla ricerca del tempo perduta - In Search of Lost Time

Curated by Ágnes Urbán and organised in collaboration with the Hungarian Association of Artists of Fine and Applied Arts, with the support of the Hungarian Academy of Arts and the Ministry of Culture and Innovation, this contemporary art exhibition (with free admission) explores the intertwining of personal and collective memory, weaving together the threads between past and present.

The past does not fade away: it continues to live within us, in our memories, in the shared traces that belong to a country, a people, a continent. In the same way, every individual carries within them layers of memory that make them who they are. The works on display at Palazzo Falconieri, the headquarters of the Hungarian Academy in Rome, bring to light a past that is never truly over but overlaps with the present, enriching it with new nuances and opening it up to unexpected interpretations.

Art, with its ability to evoke intense and involuntary memories – that Proustian phenomenon that takes us by surprise and moves us deeply – becomes here a bridge between who we once were and who we are now. An invitation to recognise that our identity is made up of images, fragments and emotions that continue to resonate.