A person is called “control freak” when someone has an obsession to have a certain way of doing, repeating, systemizing things. They become stressful if someone acts in a different way than how they expect it. A control freak tries to convince others to comply to the rules they created and can even get into conflicts because of this. The question is, can a society be control freak? Is it really necessary to regulate nature at this level for humanity to live and to feel relatively safe in it? To what extent is it possible to influence the operation of nature while it can still keep some of its own dynamics and laws?
The artwork of Júlia Egervári was inspired by the special hyrography of Vojka, where the Danube lives a “double life”: on one side, there is a strictly regulated river, but parallel to that, small streams make up the inner delta. The plant prints on the textile are made of different plants collected at the different offsets of the river.