Thinkfiner is pleased to present digital twin : Budapest, featuring work by artists Beáta Szabó and Jody Wood in Budafok district of Budapest, Hungary.

Beáta Szabó and Jody Wood are artists whose works explore themes of social engagement, care, and community. Szabó employs a multidisciplinary approach that merges performance, video, and installation to examine human vulnerability and resilience, often addressing collective memory and the body’s role in social structures. Wood similarly focuses on socially engaged art, using participatory projects to highlight issues of care, labor, and access, particularly in relation to marginalized communities. Both artists challenge conventional artistic practices by embedding their work in lived experiences, fostering critical dialogue, and advocating for systemic change.

The works were created and captured at art quarter budapest (aqb). Jody Wood’s work is a living installation presenting community remedies for mobility collected through the artist’s ongoing project, Social Pharmacy. Beáta Szabó’s installation is a site-specific outdoor shrine to display the atmosphere and objects from the common roots of magic, religion, medicine and art, based on her paintings and collection of Ghanaian remedies.

About Beáta Szabó
Beáta Szabó is a painter and visual artist living and working in Budapest. She creates her works in the triple unity of body, food and magic. She is inspired by experience of the female body as well as the kitchen as an alchemical laboratory. She is interested in viscera, the inside of the body. She depicts food in her body or builds a body from food. For her, magic is a healing science that can be used to remedy social and historical injustices.

About Jody Wood
Jody Wood is an artist working in mediums of social practice, video, photography, and performance. Her itinerant public projects address health, care, and poverty. She has received notable awards for her social practice including Fellowship for Socially Engaged Art from A Blade of Grass in NYC, the Rema Hort Mann Foundation Community Arts Grant, and the Fundação Luso-Americana para o Desenvolvimento Grant Award (FLAD) in Portugal. Her work has been supported by residencies at prestigious institutions such as Headlands Center for the Arts, Yaddo, and Skowhegan School for Painting and Sculpture. Her work has been presented in solo exhibitions at Skövde Art Museum and Norrtälje Konsthall in Sweden, Open Source Gallery in Brooklyn, and WhiteBox Gallery front window in NYC, and group exhibitions and screenings at Manchester School of Art, UK; Parrish Museum of Art in Water Mill, NY; and Art Basel Miami Beach. Her work has been featured in publications such as The Atlantic, The Art Newspaper, and The New York Times.

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