After the liberation from the communist dictatorship, text in Hungarian visual art becomes more and more o¢en and directly a means of updating or subverting religious tradition, beliefs and myths, a recollection of sacred time, of the eternal present promised in discourses on transcendence. e analyses in this paper illustrate this through interpretations that do not consider textual elements as ancillaries but treat them on an equal footing with other visual elements, that also validate semantic contexts, poetic aspects, and that open up space for the movement of meaning experienced in the interpretative process. As can be seen in the interpretations, works that often imitate archaic systems of signification only in their visuality o¢en seem to be representative of forgetting rather than conveying communal memory. The majority of the works examined here make sense in dialogue with various sacred texts or canonical documents, and in some cases, the potential of intertextual relations to make meaning is explicitly revealed in the dialogue of distant moments in time or different conceptions of time. In a further group of works, the attempt to cross the boundary between spheres of being is expressed in ritual action, in prayer or supplication, as an apostrophic discourse that is essentially an approach to the non-human or the unborn.