CRANBROOK ACADEMY OF ART GRADUATE DREGREE EXHIBITION 2025  
GRADUATES \\ WORK \\ ABOUT \\
FANNI
SOMOGYI
DEPARTMENT
METALS
ORIGIN
 BUDAPEST, HUNGARY & BALTIMORE, MD
 I have been attracted to strange and weird things: the bumpy proliferous growth of gourds, sprouting potatoes, and infrastructural components like gas meters and pipe fittings. I comingle the organic and industrial to illuminate systemic and symbiotic relationships and interspecies connections, as I ponder and reflect on our interconnectedness with the broader ecological networks.

While at Cranbrook I have been fascinated by the guttural systems of buildings and fell in love with electroforming. Metals surface holds a memory of process. By electroforming and deforming, copper and texturing steel with welds, I capture the tension of uncomfortable shifts in our increasingly technology-driven world. The texturing also becomes skin, and with the addition of the heat-treated patina, a rich indigo purple and deep blue grey, I allude to wounds. There is vulnerability and elasticity in these rigid structural materials that contain our bodies. By unveiling the overlooked elements in our institutional and environmental settings, I invite viewers to engage more deeply and consciously with the objects, systems, and living beings that shape and share their environment.



Left to right: Oscillations, Offering: Rhythm, Molt
2024, Steel and electroformed copper  
Offering: Rhythm detail
2024, Steel and electroformed copper, 8” x 8” x 40”  
Molt
2024, Electroformed copper, 12” x 10” x 5”