Anne traveled to Budapest with other members of Adda for the opening on February 20 of the exhibition "Dance of Light" by Bang Hai Ja, inspired artist and translator with her husband of Talking with Angels in Korean.

I was waiting, without knowing it, for an opportunity to present itself. It was Hai Ja, a exhibition in Budapest of his many latest paintings: Matter-Light, born under the inspiration of reading the Talking with Angels !

Attending, participating in the preparation of the exhibition, was a lesson and a gift.

“Light is pouring through you” (1)

At Hai Ja, nothing is superfluous, no gesture, no word. A scan of the gaze, precise movements, moments of healing too, in the immobile and silent interiority... A radiant calm...

And what a privilege to be entrusted with simplicity and confidence with tasks that made us touch and manipulate these paintings of an almost sacramental delicacy and depth. Finally, what jubilation to go through them together in an inner vibration echoing what we are contemplating.

These colors, these colors, these colors… of dawns, of creation of the world, of infinity and eternity, like a nectar: “joy is the air of the new world”! (2)

Discovery also of Korean dances: the shimmering of the costumes, the make-up, the music and the dance like breathing. And the warm welcome of this Korean Cultural Center which knows how to happily and generously share its culture. Nothing equal with other centers visited elsewhere.

A first step in Korea, in Budapest, which offers a scent of friendship, which I welcome with gratitude.

Pictures Seven Angel Films

Then, it will finally be the expected dive, in Hungary, with its highlights:

BUDALIGET … BUDALIGET… the word resounds for a long time in my interior silence, like a call.

We are, three, four, five miserably ordinary friends in the pouring rain, in this neighborhood of ordinary houses, like the people who occupied it at the time, where the extraordinary happened in its ultimate simplicity. .

“What could be more natural than talking together” (3)

The emotion is sweet and deep. From our lips, from our hearts, rise a thanksgiving and secret promises… Subtle embrace, unspeakable joy.

Then, Katalin. A feverish eagerness seizes me to recognize each of the places with precision, to reread the passages linked to each of the events of which we have the testimonies engraved in us, painfully, and to confront them with reality, on the spot.

The places are now occupied by children running and playing and laughing. And it is a great comfort. Smiles in the eyes and on the lips, promise for the future.

Children will know the history of this place. It will be told to them.

What to say about Budapest, traveled too quickly, but enough to perceive the warmth of hospitality, the spontaneous kindness and friendliness, the joy of living...

A first step in Hungary and the desire that there are others.

Köszönom!

AA

(1) Gitta: How can I make my paintings contain the New Light, and create a desire for it in those who look at them?
— LA LUMIÈRE SE DÉVERSE À TRAVERS TOI...
I am going to tell you a secret :
LIGHT is the same as light,
seule l'intensité est différente.
Interview 9 with Gitta (p. 50)

(2) Interview 28 with Lili (p. 169)

(3) Interview 28 with Lili (p. 171)