Footnote Centre

Present at Footnote in August:

Welcome 🎉

Levente Hajdu ( ) is a Budapest-based multi-disciplinary artist with a background in philosophy and media design. He studied media art, art theory, film theory, philosophy at MOME (Budapest), ELTE (Budapest), BABES-BÓLYAI (Cluj), Sorbonne (Paris). He mainly works with fine arts, but also writes poems and short stories. His attention, like our time, is best described by the ADHD symptom. His exhibitions cover a wide range of subjects, from Hungarian rural nostalgia to very personal stories, from abstract animation to the precarious position of artists. He is one of the advocates of the Hungarian Cultural Basic Income.

Within the Footnote residency in Belgrade he is continuing his Polypropylene Bags Project, a collection of plastic bags from the local markets. Furthermore taking part in the residency is a great opportunity for him to tidy up his emails and downloads folder and refresh his portfolio for the next artist application.

We are happy to introduce you to our June resident who will be presenting something special next week.

Hadar Kleiman is a visual artist based in Brooklyn, NY. She earned her BFA from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem and her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. Kleiman's mixed-media practice incorporates materials such as terrazzo, ceramics, found objects, fabric and wood. Her work explores the aesthetic interplay between high and low within consumer culture, new-ageism, and symbolic archetypes.

Kleiman has participated in various shows, residencies, and art fairs including UNTITLED San Francisco, stARTup Fair, Untitled Residency in Shanghai, China, Blue Cactus Residency in Barcelona, Spain, and Spring/Break NY Art Fair. Her art has been featured in Momus, KQED, and Dissolve.

During her residency at the Footnote Centre, Hadar is creating new sculptures as part of her series titled Scapes and working on her memoir, a novel integrating both writing and illustrations.

Welcome Adeline and Manuel !

Adeline & Manuel live in Dunkerque, north of France. They have been involved in residencies and
exhibitions in Canada, Mexico, Morocco, Poland, UK and Italy, participate in/contribute to exhibitions,
workshops and conferences in various locations across France.

Their collaborative practice includes sculptural installations/objects, drawing and performative
actions. Their interventions frequently involve other artists, territories and inhabitants. They use what
could be called tools of landscape practice and often appropriate the techniques of surveyors and
topographers.

✨ We are delighted to introduce you to Sanem Su Avci who is currently residing at the Footnote Centre ✨ Sanem is a writer, performer, musician, historian and social entrepreneur with a wide range of interests from esotericism to macroeconomics. She was born in Izmir in 1989 and lives in Athens since 2018. She currently runs the migrant-led cooperative vegan eatery Magic Kitchen in the center of Athens of which she is the founder, while doing a PhD in Panteion University on the cultural and intellectual impact of Cold War anticommunism in Greece and Turkey, and building her series of musical lecture performances with the title Sanem’s Historical Revelations. She has studied various social sciences and used to work as a professional of politics, until some dreams and some incidents of public violence in 2015-16 convinced her to change trajectory. Since then, she engages in various methods of divination and fortune-telling, working as a freelance fortune-teller and a divination consultant among other things. She has numerous non-fiction publications in French, Greek, Turkish and English. Sanem’s current artistic work focuses on the lived experience of violence and sovereignty, interspecies and intraspecies communication, historiography, magic and religion, embodied knowledge and memory.