Caring is a common experience for all of us, and it shapes our lives from birth until death. It can be interpreted on the personal level (self-care) or projected onto relationships between people (maternal or parental care, elderly care). Still, it can also be extended to caring for nonhumans and, in a broader sense, for the Earth itself.
Care and the activities associated with it are historically, socially and culturally closely linked to women. For centuries, care has been unquestionably linked to women’s and mothers’ roles. The works selected for the exhibition deal with caring relationships between (female) generations, the role of invisible work, and the status and unequal distribution of caring activities.
At the opening event:
* the starting point of Andrea Fajgerné Dudás’s performance is THINKING and UNCONCEIVABLE WORK.
As a young student artist (and mother of young children), she formulated her landmark manifesto for the history of art (Manifesto for Maintenance Art, 1969), and inaugurated the ever-changing tasks of domesticity and care into art.
* the starting point of Andrea Fajgerné Dudás’s performance is THINKING and UNCONCEIVABLE WORK.
As a young student artist (and mother of young children), she formulated her landmark manifesto for the history of art (Manifesto for Maintenance Art, 1969), and inaugurated the ever-changing tasks of domesticity and care into art.
* interactive performance of Erdei Krisztina – “Visitors as invisible museum guards”
Exhibiting artists
BAGLYAS Erika, ERDEI Krisztina, FAJGERNÉ Dudás Andrea, FÁTYOL Viola, GAJEWSZKY Anna, HERMANN Ildi, KORTMANN-JÁRAY Katalin, MENDRECZKY Karina, OLÁH Mara OMARA, POPRÁDI Flóra
BAGLYAS Erika, ERDEI Krisztina, FAJGERNÉ Dudás Andrea, FÁTYOL Viola, GAJEWSZKY Anna, HERMANN Ildi, KORTMANN-JÁRAY Katalin, MENDRECZKY Karina, OLÁH Mara OMARA, POPRÁDI Flóra
Curator
POPOVICS Viktória, DABI-FARKAS Rita
POPOVICS Viktória, DABI-FARKAS Rita
The exhibition is open: Liszt Institute Brussels, 15 May – 18 June
