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Street Road
725 Street Road Cochranville, PA 19330 

The Little Free Library
1016B Gap Newport Pike 
Cochranville, PA 19330
Moving Façades /
Élő Homlokzatok

Janos Korodi
Spring 2027
OPENING RECEPTION
TBD
Moving Façades / Élő Homlokzatok is a multimedia exhibition connecting Cochranville, PA and Budapest through two simultaneous shows linked by live video, sound, and shared visual language. The project brings together two long-standing bodies of work -- Genius Loci, focused on the spirit of place, and Motion, exploring movement, transition, and the experience of immigration — into a single inquiry examining what persists when cultures move across distance.
 
The works are based on photographs of the rear walls of freight trucks, captured on Pennsylvanian and Hungarian roads — mobile surfaces that function as temporary architectures, carrying traces of human activity, labor, and cultural identity. These images are transferred through dye-sublimation onto reclaimed plywood previously used in industrial shipping, each sheet unique in grain and surface history. The same digital files are processed locally at both venues, so that material differences between the two places subtly inflect each version of the image.
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The two venues are connected during the openings by a live video feed — a portal between the spaces, allowing visitors in Cochranville and Budapest to encounter one another in real time as the exhibition unfolds in parallel. Sound and spoken language complete the network.

Pictured: Janos Korodi, Moving Façades / Élő Homlokzatok, dye-sublimation transfer on reclaimed plywood, 2026
Janos Korodi (b. 1971, Budapest, Hungary) is a visual artist and painter whose practice spans painting, printmaking, murals, photography, and interdisciplinary collaboration. Trained at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts, where he earned his doctorate in 2013, he has exhibited internationally for over three decades and received awards and residencies including the Eötvös Scholarship in New York and a residency at the Hungarian Academy in Rome. Since 2015 he has lived and worked in Philadelphia.
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Korodi's work engages the public sphere through diverse artistic expressions, touching on social and environmental concerns — sometimes metaphorically within the painting practice, more directly through collaborative and community-based projects. His early work explored pattern and atavism through paintings of animal furs and carpets. In the 2000s he turned to industrial and urban architecture through the Genius Loci — Spirit of the Place series, which informed his doctoral research. This focus later shifted toward themes of transition and displacement, reflecting both his own immigration experience and broader global movement, in the painting cycle Motion. Moving Façades / Élő Homlokzatok brings these two bodies of work into dialogue for the first time.
PARTNER INSTITUTION
DOXA — Budapest, Hungary
DOXA (δόξα) — common belief, as opposed to truth — is rooted in dialogue, community, and the circulation of knowledge. Founded in 2022, DOXA is an independent, artist-run, non-profit and non-collecting art space in Budapest’s Palotanegyed [Palace District].
More than a gallery, DOXA is an exhibition space, curatorial platform, editorial den, and venue for educational projects. It brings contemporary art and ideas from Hungary and abroad to Budapest, while connecting local artists and art professionals with international contexts through exhibitions, collaborations, new productions, and knowledge exchange.
DOXA also collaborates with several universities on incubation programmes, typically resulting in pop-up exhibitions that provide students and emerging artists with opportunities to experiment, develop new work, and engage with professional art contexts. Time is a recurring theme in DOXA’s programme, notably explored through the student series Időanyag.
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MUSICAL COMMISSION 
​The musical composition for this project is created by Susanne Brokesch, a Vienna-born experimental electronic musician and composer based in New York City, where she has lived for over twenty years. Brokesch has released work on seminal labels including Cheap Records, Disko-B, and Sähkö Recordings. Her practice weaves together electronic experimentation, folk traditions, and deeply personal sonic landscapes. For this project, she traveled to both sites — Cochranville, PA and downtown Budapest — to make field recordings that are woven into the composition itself, so that each venue hears not only music but the sonic presence of the other place.
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We can accommodate most times by appointment, given a little advance notice. 
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And, stop by if you see a car outside!

HOURS — Street Road 
Closed until September 19th
and by appointment, in person or virtually. 

HOURS — Little Free Library 19330 (our 2nd site a few miles north)
Thursdays 12-4pm
Fridays 10am-2pm
Saturdays 10am-2pm
and by appointment.
Note: we will be CLOSED on Saturday, September 5th (Labor Day weekend).

Our Little Free Library outdoor boxes at both sites are open 24/7 and are regularly restocked.

Please call 610-869-4712 or email to set up visits outside our regularly scheduled hours. 
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We are currently seeking volunteers for both locations: email us to enquire. We look forward to hearing from you!

DIRECTIONS
to Street Road here.
to The Little Free Library here.

A word about 'here':
We acknowledge that we are on the ancestral lands of the Lenape, original people of the mid-Atlantic area, forced west by British and US governments. Most Delaware Indian tribe descendants are now located in Oklahoma, Wisconsin, and Ontario. Lenni Lenapes in Pennsylvania are not officially recognized as tribes by the United States, though an estimated 5000 Lenape Nation descendants live in the Delaware River area. We pay respects to the Lenape people both past and present. Please consider the many legacies of violence, displacement and settlement that form part of our collective histories. While increased public recognition of these legacies and processes of redress such as Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission are positive steps, concrete focus on return of land and land rights remains a distant horizon.
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