A Hungarian Girl Dreams About the Arrival of the Hungarian Euro

De-Tuning as a Practice

This project approaches de-tuning as a critical method for unsettling symbols that promise stability in a post-socialist landscape shaped by economic transition, deferred futures, and contested sovereignty. By stripping a coin of its function, the work renders it inoperative, suspending it between currency and artifact. The coin becomes a paradoxical residue of alignment that never fully arrives, exposing value as politically staged while also opening a rupture in historical narratives and national folklore.

Emblems such as the falcon, mobilised across shifting regimes, are re-encountered through subjective narration. As they move between myth and ideology, these registers remain inseparable, revealing how identity is continuously rehearsed through material repetition and tradition.

/ Euro Nail: cupronickel. L:62mm, H:3,60mm, D:2mm /