Entertainment versus a deep enquiry - at Tate Modern Angus Stewart is briefly amused by Francis Alÿs, while in Budapest he is stopped short by Andrea Bátorfi's spellbinding installation Unfolding…

The leak gaping above us
Our title allows the conclusion that we are in the depths of something, and the only way out is upwards. Obviously, I won’t talk about a flood covering the entire world, although it does help if we feel that the only way to escape is upwards, and if our body doesn’t make it because the flood is sweeping it away, at least our soul should be a lucky astronaut…

A peculiar and mysterious world opens up in front of us in the photo-graphics of this exhibition, and somewhere, within the depths of our mind, intimately familiar feelings loom while contemplating these images: transient memories from our infancy, when our concept-based thinking had not nailed the phenomena to the structures of the limited ordinary world yet, and consciousness moved freely between the visible and the invisible worlds…