A mysterious hand writes unknown words on the wall: “You have been weighed, and found wanting.” The prophet deciphers it, the king falls.¹ An angel’s hand touches a warrior’s hip, and it jumps from its socket—yet its owner receives a victor’s name.² Man is defeated / man is raised. Reality check.

The medium is the material: glossy black enamel paint,³ moving off its support surface, cross-linking to draw out the narrative. At the center of this web, a religious image got stuck: a cheap aluminum Theotokos, evoking the riza-casing of a Byzantine icon. Object and paint are put through a trial by pressure:⁴ pointing forces the material through the figures’ empty silhouettes. The result: a dense, root-like paint outgrowth—“manually 3D-printed”—taking on the saints’ outline at the entry point (religious framing), only to cluster into a depersonalized, organic form. On the floor it lies sprawled out as spilled mass, off its leash (the medium is free).

Lőrinc Borsos, Weighed Found Wanting, 2021, enamel paint, textile, aluminium riza, polistirol, chain, 200 x 150 x 150 cm, photo: Barnabás neogrády-Kiss.

Lőrinc Borsos, Weighed Found Wanting, 2021, (detail), enamel paint, textile, aluminium riza, polistirol, chain, 200 x 150 x 150 cm, photo: photo: Barnabás neogrády-Kiss.