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"Over the last 10 years I have seen quite a few examples of photographers turning photographs into three dimensional objects by cutting into prints, bending the cut sections at an angle or adding layers of cut prints on top of one another. I usually find these efforts to be sweet nothings, empty of intellectual and emotional content. But Inda Gallery of Budapest showed examples that I found truly remarkable: two works by Marianne Csaky from her series Time Tunnel, images made in the homely, unglamorous setting of her own home. With cut-outs of silhouettes, one of a mysterious visitor and her herself, their shapes frozen in a series of movements as he leaves, the other as he arrives. These two works had more than a few resonances for me, such as Joseph Conrad's assertion that we can never truly know ourselves, as well as the opening lines in John Berger's book Ways of Seeing, published 1972: "The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled.""
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