Transform into Driva – a drone/diva creation by artist Huntrezz János. Visit the gallery's corner window screen, part of our programme of outdoor works in Soho Photography Quarter, and see yourself in an extravagant headpiece using this creative face filter. At the top of the headpiece, there is a drone – the Bayraktar – which is often used for military and surveillance purposes. The work hints at the unequal distribution of power in public spaces and offers ways to challenge and resist it in playful ways.

Biography

Huntrezz János is a boundary-breaking Afro-Hungarian Transcorporealist woman whose work spans across mediums including installation, augmented and virtual realities, painting, sculpture, performance, and poetry, to name a few. János uses sharp renders, digital simulations, and anarchic vaporwave aesthetics to explore the layered nature of identity and the lived experiences of systemic oppression and exclusion. Janos uses her work to challenge preconceived notions surrounding identity, community, social infrastructure, and the intersectionality of her experiences. With her interactive face filters and augmented reality mythology, Janos introduces fantastic and impossible characters to represent different real, imagined, and daydreamed happenings in her life.

Her work has appeared in exhibitions internationally including Make Me Feel Mighty Real: Drag/Tech and the Queer Avatar (1969-2023), Honor Fraser, LA; Machine Violence, Postmasters, New York; and I'll Be Your Mirror: Art and the Digital Screen, The Modern, Fort Worth.