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Liberty, Equality, Sorority, Sensuality

Perspectives on the Female Experience

On view
February 9, 2023 – March 26, 2023
Tuesday–Friday: 2pm–7pm
Saturday–Sunday: 11am–7pm
Closed on Monday and on public holidays.
Venue: Capa Center

Exhibiting artists: Márta Aczél, Marianne Csáky, Orshi Drozdik, Andi Gáldi Vinkó, Katalin Ladik, Júlia Standovár
Curator: Emese Mucsi
In collaboration with: acb Gallery, Erika Deák Gallery, Einspach Fine Art & Photography, INDA Gallery, TOBE Gallery, Vintage Galéria



Do we women resemble each other like sisters? Although one should go to great lengths to provide an exhaustive description of the sorority, or sisterhood, which is between women, it may be recapped as an alliance based upon physiological and ideological community. On the one hand, sisterhood means kinship, and it represents the general biological connection due to which we women share a wide range of common experiences and which determines the majority of our common causes. But the initial question could not be answered in the affirmative only on this basis. On the other hand, though, a good sibling-sibling relationship is more than a strong biological link between two people – mutual learning and helping, standing up for each other, and sympathy are also fundamental parts. If this respect is also considered, sisterhood is suddenly understood as it has been by those who have been actively fighting for the rights and visibility of women since the end of the 18th century – and hence the question turns into an assertion.

The exhibition Liberty, Equality, Sorority, Sensuality features images and photo series that have photography seen as a tool and opportunity for women’s emancipation, artistic self-fulfillment, and exercise of solidarity towards each other. In cooperation with Hungarian galleries regularly attending major international photography fairs, we selected works with the purpose of providing an insight into the oeuvre of artists who deliberately take an active role in opening up new perspectives on women’s personal experiences. The show highlights the individualistic yet empathetic female gaze as a cross-generational phenomenon. The exhibited works, projects, and sets are accompanied with personal commentaries in which the artists reflect upon their photographs, photo-based works, and photographic practices, dealing with issues of their identity in general, and as an artist and thinker, their public roles, and their transformations. The exhibit is thus like an anthology consisting of images and their associated comments, offering a parallel read across works on the female experience and their subjective interpretations, permeated by a personal tone awakening our feeling of community.

Emese Mucsi
curator

Exhibiting artists and delegating galleries:
Márta Aczél (Vintage Galéria)
Marianne Csáky (INDA Gallery)
Orshi Drozdik (Einspach Fine Art & Photography)
Andi Gáldi Vinkó (Erika Deák Gallery)
Katalin Ladik (acb Gallery)
Júlia Standovár (TOBE Gallery)

Andrea Gáldi Vinkó: Collection No.2; Bold (giclée print, Museum Fibre matt archive paper, 40x26.7 cm)
Andrea Gáldi Vinkó: Collection No.2; Bold (giclée print, Museum Fibre matt archive paper, 40x26.7 cm)
Andrea Gáldi Vinkó: Eve; Nipple flowering (giclée print, Museum Fibre matt archive paper, 40x26.7 cm; 70x46,7cm)
Andrea Gáldi Vinkó: Eve;  Nipple flowering (giclée print, Museum Fibre matt archive paper, 40x26.7 cm;  70x46,7cm)
Andrea Gáldi Vinkó: Golden milk medicine (giclée print, Museum Fibre matt archive paper, 70x46.7 cm)
Andrea Gáldi Vinkó: Golden milk medicine (giclée print, Museum Fibre matt archive paper, 70x46.7 cm)
Andrea Gáldi Vinkó: Summerfingers (giclée print, Museum Fibre matt archive paper, 70x50 cm)
Andrea Gáldi Vinkó: Summerfingers (giclée print, Museum Fibre matt archive paper, 70x50 cm)
Júlia Standovár: KINKY CONRETE Block Party, 2020 (1/3 + 1AP digital photography archival pigment print, 60 x 42 cm)
Júlia Standovár: KINKY CONRETE Block Party, 2020 (1/3 + 1AP digital photography archival pigment print, 60 x 42 cm)
Júlia Standovár: KINKY CONRETE Boob\'s Army, 2020 (analogue photography, mixed techniques, archival pigment print, canvas, 70x50cm)
Júlia Standovár: KINKY CONRETE Boob\'s Army, 2020 (analogue photography, mixed techniques, archival pigment print, canvas, 70x50cm)
Júlia Standovár: KINKY CONRETE Lanzarote III, 2019 (analogue photography, archival pigment print, 60x40cm)
Júlia Standovár: KINKY CONRETE Lanzarote III, 2019 (analogue photography, archival pigment print, 60x40cm)
Júlia Standovár: KINKY CONRETE Wet and Blue III, 2020 (analogue photography, archival pigment print, 60x40cm)
Júlia Standovár: KINKY CONRETE Wet and Blue III, 2020 (analogue photography, archival pigment print, 60x40cm)
Júlia Standovár: KINKY CONRETE You Can\'t Have It All, 2018 (analogue photography, archival pigment print, 75x46cm)
Júlia Standovár: KINKY CONRETE You Can\'t Have It All, 2018 (analogue photography, archival pigment print, 75x46cm)
Katalin Ladik: Hairself 1982/2021 (40 x 30 cm)
Katalin Ladik: Hairself 1982/2021  (40 x 30 cm)
Katalin Ladik: Poemask II. (Photo by Gábor Ifjú), 1982/2018
Katalin Ladik: Poemask II. (Photo by Gábor Ifjú), 1982/2018
Katalin Ladik: Poemim, 1978/2016, (40 x 30 cm)
Katalin Ladik: Poemim, 1978/2016, (40 x 30 cm)
Marianne Csáky: The Other Planet nr 4 - (Women fighters - Női harcosok), 2022, 148x93 cm, charcoal drawing, print on Hahnemuhle paper The photo montage print is based on frames from a footage shot in the boarder of Iraq, Iran and Turkey on Yazidi and Kurdish women fighters. Broadcasted by BBC in 2015.
Marianne Csáky: The Other Planet nr 4 - (Women fighters - Női harcosok), 2022, 148x93 cm, charcoal drawing, print on Hahnemuhle paper The photo montage print is based on frames from a footage shot in the boarder of Iraq, Iran and Turkey on Yazidi and Kurdish women fighters. Broadcasted by BBC in 2015.
Marianne Csáky:The Other Planet nr 8 - (Fugitive - Menekülő), 2022, 127 x 92 cm, print on baryta paper, silk appliques Edition: 1/2 + 1 AP The silk applique is based on a photograph taken on a migrant woman from Honduras at the US Mexican border in 2018.
Marianne Csáky:The Other Planet  nr 8 - (Fugitive - Menekülő), 2022, 127 x 92 cm, print on baryta paper, silk appliques Edition: 1/2 + 1 AP The silk applique is based on a photograph taken on a migrant woman from Honduras at the US Mexican border in 2018.
Márta Aczél: Untitled (baeder), c1935 (gelatin silver enlargement, 178x125 mm)
Márta Aczél: Untitled (baeder), c1935 (gelatin silver enlargement, 178x125 mm)
Márta Aczél: Untitled (Still life with fish), c1935 (gelatin silver enlargement, 175x232 mm)
Márta Aczél: Untitled (Still life with fish), c1935 (gelatin silver enlargement, 175x232 mm)
Márta Aczél: Untitled (Texture), c1935 (gelatin silver enlargement, 240x176 mm)
Márta Aczél: Untitled (Texture),  c1935 (gelatin silver enlargement, 240x176 mm)
Orsolya Drozdik: Drapery # 0065 (Rome), 2005 (enduracrome/ paper/digital, 102 cm x 267 cm)
Orsolya Drozdik: Drapery # 0065 (Rome),  2005 (enduracrome/ paper/digital, 102 cm x 267 cm)
Orsolya Drozdik: Drapery # 0071 (Rome) 2005 (enduracrome/ paper/digital, 100 cm x 278 cm)
Orsolya Drozdik: Drapery # 0071 (Rome)  2005 (enduracrome/ paper/digital, 100 cm x 278 cm)
Orsolya Drozdik: ndividual mythology: Leonardo (Vitruvian woman), 1977, Budapest
Orsolya Drozdik: ndividual mythology: Leonardo (Vitruvian woman), 1977, Budapest