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12 May 2023 \u2013 30 July 2023<\/p>\n
Location: BUDAPEST GALLERY, 1036 Budapest, Lajos utca 158.<\/p>\n
Curator: L\u00edvia P\u00e1ldi<\/p>\n
Design: Katarina \u0160evi\u0107<\/p>\n
Exhibiting artists: Kateryna Aliinyk, Artists\u2019 Campaign to Repeal the Eighth Amendment, Rachel Fallon, Olia Fedorova, Jelena Jure\u0161a, Elektra KB, Hristina Ivanoska, L\u00f3r\u00e1nt Anik\u00f3 (1977-2020), Milica Tomi\u0107, Trapp Dominika, Selma Selman, Anna Zvyagintseva<\/p>\n
Coordinator of social relations: Di\u00e1na Darabos<\/p>\n
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Jelena Jure\u0161a<\/p>\n
APHASIA, film still, 2019<\/p>\n
[\/vc_column_text][vc_separator type=”transparent” up=”20″ down=”25″][vc_column_text]In January 2020, the General Assembly of Budapest passed a resolution to create a \u201cMonument to Women Raped in War,\u201d facilitating the personal and communal processing of a long-forgotten trauma story. The monument is scheduled to be inaugurated in 2024.
\nSince the project launch, the themes of war violence, public commemoration and memorials as well as their broader context have been presented in several events, a mock-up exhibition, a lecture series, and a publication, fostering social and professional dialogue and debate.
\nSince World War II, there have been numerous waves of sexual violence in global and local conflicts, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the ensuing military aggression have recently brought the brutality of war (sexual) crimes, traumatic losses, vulnerability and environmental destruction alarmingly close, while also demonstrating the power of broad social solidarity.
\nThe urgency of offering a nuanced examination of the complex phenomenon and operation of violence is due not only to the violence experienced in a rising number of military conflict zones, but also to the inequalities in patriarchal power structures, discrimination against LGBTQI+ people, struggles for bodily autonomy, equality and reproductive health, and the rise of domestic violence.<\/p>\n
Exposure to violence and aggression is systemic. The health, justice and (family) law systems of the partiarchal state, which subordinate and degrade women, fundamental deficiencies of the legal system, and male-centric national and memory politics are all responsible for the perpetuation of (often state-sponsored) bias against women, the schemata of violence in public consciousness, and practices of victim-blaming.<\/p>\n
The international group exhibition at the Budapest Gallery presents experiences of violence, scripts of social behavior, and visual and political themes of violence from women\u2019s and queer perspectives.
\nWorks with a more abstract approach to the complex patterns of states and trap situations of abuse, fear-mongering and anxiety are juxtaposed with diary-like works recording visceral reactions to the situation in Ukraine and to pervasive violence.
\nSeveral artists deal with the enduring traumas of the region\u2019s recent past, the Yugoslav wars.
\nThe political-ideological manipulation of collective memory, ethnically based violence, and collective responsibility are examined in this investigative, partly archive-based research within wider contexts and relations. These include artistic representations of Polish, Irish and South American social movements and body politics activism that rewrite the strategies of solidarity and agency.<\/p>\n
The accompanying and educational programs developed in cooperation with artists, NGOs and human rights activists, such as discussions, talks, guided tours and workshops, seek to engage different generations and people of various social backgrounds.[\/vc_column_text][vc_separator type=”normal”][vc_column_text]The title of the exhibition may recall an essay published by political philosopher Hannah Arendt on the relationship between war, politics, violence and power in 1969. Although her essay expresses several ideas that are applicable to the present, this exhibition explores the possibilities of political action and political community along different lines.[\/vc_column_text][vc_separator type=”normal”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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