What happens when you create a world of your own, even if it exists only in your head? And how can you distill your identity into a single flag?

In his latest exhibition, Áron Lőrincz raises a collection of his own Jolly Rogers. Traditionally flown by pirate ships, the Jolly Roger was a flag used to declare identity and presence, most famously through the skull and crossbones. In Lőrincz’s hands, this historic symbol becomes something personal and playful, a flag under which to define one’s own position in the world. Here, the pirate flag is not a threat, but a personal statement: a symbol of stepping away from the constant noise of the outside world, stripping away its madness, and creating your own rhythm, your own rules, your own world.

Within the dense, jungle like environments of the paintings, Áron’s figures are simultaneously part of the world and detached from it. Their surroundings envelop them, while their intense colors visually separate them from everything around them.…