Name: “I also took the same photo last week.”
Start: 2026-04-10T19:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-04-10T22:00:00+02:00
Location: Dohány utca 85, Budapest, Hungary, 1074

$\u201cI also took the same photo last week.\u201d$

𝟬. 𝗞𝗲𝘆𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗱𝘀
laboratory of visual correlation
dialogue based on cognitive association
subjective taxonomy
𝟭. 𝗧𝗶𝘁𝗹𝗲: “I also took the same photo last week.”
𝟮. 𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝘂𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗿𝘀:
The mplusfplus is an ongoing research project which is based on visual conversation between Zalka Márton and Francesco Dipierro. The researchers (M and F) typically publish this image-based dialogue via photobooks and Instagram; this exhibition functions as a physicalized research journal.
This experiment of the exhibition posits that the visual dialogue is not merely a medium, but a photographic apparatus that challenges linear communication. Unlike this descriptive text, which follows a rigid logical structure, the images used by M and F operate through simultaneous visual transmission, communicating everything at once. This study (the exhibition) works as a spatial correlation, seeing all images at once.
𝟯. 𝗔𝗯𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁:
While the setup and display is inspired by and leaning into scientific research and archiving methods, providing a structural logic for the exhibition, the workflow of M and F is far more intimate. At its core, this project documents the public disclosure of a private visual dialogue. M and F do not merely curate each other – they read each other. In their practice, a photograph is never just an image; it is a tool for communication. Their work functions as a continuous, non-linear interaction, and their research topic is the communication itself. Each image serves as both a stimulus (a prompt) and a response (an interpretation), constructing a shared language based on mutual trust and associative partnership. M and F do not produce new images specifically for this purpose. Instead, they mine their own personal archives – the photos they take daily. These images are building blocks, pulled from a digital archive to see how they resonate with the others’ visual proposal. It is a shared, unpredictable conversation between M andF that opens up to whoever steps foot in the exhibiting space.
𝟰. 𝗚𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄:
Opening: 2026. 04. 10. 19:00
On view: 2026. 04. 11 - 05. 02.
Opening hours: On the weekends / or by appointment [email protected] / @mplusfplus at instagram
The exhibition is part of the Budapest Photo Festival