Eine Kuration von Reka Kaloczy, Curator · Creative Consultant & Producer · Artist Mentor & Manager bei – Telephones appear here in many forms: standing in public booths, resting on tables, hanging on walls, or transformed into sculptural and symbolic objects. Some works focus on the familiar shape of the rotary phone, carefully isolated and enlarged, while others place the telephone within everyday scenes, narrow streets, interiors, or imagined spaces. The device becomes a visual anchor, drawing attention to moments of waiting, calling, or missed connection. Across the collection, the telephone shifts between object and metaphor. It suggests intimacy and distance at the same time, a tool meant to connect yet often surrounded by silence. In some artworks, the telephone feels playful or graphic; in others, it carries emotional weight, hinting at urgency, memory, or unresolved dialogue. By presenting telephones as central figures rather than background details, the artists reflect on how communication once required presence, patience, and intention. Together, the works transform a familiar object into a quiet witness of human relationships, expectation, and time.