BY FLORA BORSI / BUDAPEST
WINNER OF HASSELBLAD HERIONES AWARD 2021
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Flora is a young fine art photographer from Hungary. She uses exquisite photo manipulation to create surreal images that are thematically focused on identity, relationships, emotions and dreams. Her immaculate technique and subtle conceptual ideas create beautiful evocations of universal emotions, from lust and desire to despair and loss. Flora at once captures the complex strength and fragility of the human psyche. She expertly visualises dark fantasies and atmospheric dreams, utilising the uncanny and clever metaphor, while unlocking what it means to think, feel, dream and express in the urban world. Her work often features the female body and she plays with hiding and revealing the eyes or face to leave only the feminine form, exploring questions of female representation and the relationship between body and self.
Flora has exhibited internationally with solo exhibitions in Europe and the USA, and has most notably taken part in the “Continental Shift” group exhibition at Saatchi Gallery. She has also exhibited at the Louvre, France. Her artwork was the face of Adobe Photoshop in 2014 and she has made the corporate identity for Adobe's Creative Cloud in 2019. Her ethereal aesthetic has won multiple art prizes and garnered critical acclaim from press including The Guardian’s Observer and BBC Culture.
She got into US Forbes 30 under 30 list and in 2021 Hasselblad chose her as the first Hasselblad Heroine of the year.
Awards
2002 Images for Earth Fifth International Edition, Drawing Contest - 3rd prize
2008 National Photography Award by NFÜ - 1st prize
2012 PictureCompete International Photography Award "The Family" - Honorable mentioned
2014 Trierenberg Super Circuit International Photography Award - Gold medal of excellence
2014 World of Circus International Art Contest - Finalist in three categories
2015 Exposure Award, Portraiture Collection
2015 Digital Photo Pro, The Face Contest, Finalist
2016 LG SmartWorld, Wallpaper Contest, Finalist
2016 Sony World Photography Awards, Commended, Enchanced category
2016 Trierenberg Super Circuit International Photography Award - Gold medals of excellence
2016 American Art Awards 1st Place
2020 Forbes 30 Under 30
2021 Hasselblad Heroines
EXHIBITIONS
2016 London, United Kingdom, Sony World Photography Awards Exhibition
2016 Ningbo, China, Group Exhibition, Representing Hungary "Culture and Art Festival"
2016 Ibiza, Spain, Group Exhibition "Universo de Belleza", P Art Ibiza
2016 New York, United States, Group Exhibition "Ephemeral" curated by TAX Collection at Guy Hepner Gallery
2016 Shanghai, China, Solo Exhibition, Hungarian Cultural Week organized by Consulate General of Hungary in Shanghai
2016 Cologne, Germany, Photo Kina, Representing Tecco Paper
2016 Linz, Austria, Group Exhibition "Trierenberg Super Circuit's Best Works"
2016 Budapest, Hungary, Solo Exhibition at Profi Foto Exhibition
2017 Shanghai, China, Solo Exhibition "V4 Day" organized by Consulate General of Hungary in Shanghai
2017 Brussels, Belgium, Group Exhibiton "Brussels Photo Festival", Hangar Art Center
2017 Istanbul, Türkey, Art Fair "Contemporary Istanbul", Anna Laudel Gallery
2017 Stuttgart, Germany, Group Exhibition "Fumes and Perfumes"
2018 Paris, France, Group Exhibition, "Ethereal", Image Nation
2018 Milan, Italy, Group Exhibition "Milano Photo week x Paratissima", Image Nation
2018 Huangshan, China, Group Exhibition "Yixian International Photography Festival"
2018 Huaiyin, China, Group Exhibition "2nd Lang Jingshan Cup China, New Pictorial Photography Biennale"
2018 Monaco, Group Exhibition, "Exposition Magyars", Hungarian Consulate in Monaco
2018 Los Angeles, United States, Adobe Max Keynote, Adobe Creative Cloud
2019 London, United Kingdom, Group Exhibition "Stolen Hearts", M&C Saatchi
2019 Sao Paulo, Brazil, Art Fair "SP Arte", GWS Gallery
2019 Paris, France, Group Exhibition "Ethereal" by Image Nation, Galerie Joseph Turenne
2019 Shanghai, China, Group Exhibition "When Art Comes To Life" Duolun MoMA
2019 Budapest, Hungary, Solo show, WORLD PRESS PHOTO - "Guest Exhibition", National Museum of Hungary
2020 Budapest, Hungary, Group show at The Mexican Embassy of Hungary
2021 Boston, United States, Solo Exhibition at Lanoue Gallery
2021 Florence, Italy, Group Exhibition, Florence Biennale
2021 London, United Kingdom, Group Exhibition, Flux Exhibitions
2021 Hjo, Solo Exhibition, Uponwalls Gallery
