Earthly Witches exhibition and zine launch by Dorottya Poór

Dorottya Poór's solo exhibition is an attempt to reimagine the comic book format, installing the comic panels in the exhibition space and reinterpreting them as autonomous artworks. The starting point for Earthly Witches is the two zines by the artists, published in 2024 and this year, during the opening. Both are collections of short, autofictional stories told from a feminist perspective. The newly released More Witches focuses on themes of elderly care, first experiences of loss, and intergenerational connections, offering a glimpse into the everyday gestures of care through Poór’s characteristically subtle storytelling. At the same time, these personal narratives, while depicting difficult, embarrassing, or unpleasant situations with the conciseness of a short story, do so with a peculiar dark humour that makes the complexity of these situations even more relatable.

As the title suggests, the exhibition and the zines highlight invisible labour, encounters between characters of different backgrounds, the building of communities and networks of support, and solidarity among women. These women are everyday witches — women who live among us, help us, or whom we, in turn, help. The works reinterpret the figure of the witch from a feminist perspective, drawing on Silvia Federici’s theories, connecting the history of witch hunts to the devaluation and marginalisation of women’s knowledge and practices of care, such as healing and midwifery.

Compared to the zine format, the exhibition allows for a shift in scale: the private, linear process of reading a comic is transformed into a public and spatial experience, unfolding in a different temporal dimension. In this expanded form, the stories invite new readings and interpretations. The large-scale ink drawings on textile both depart from the zine format and encourage viewers to return to them again and again, to immerse themselves repeatedly in their worlds.

Flóra Gadó

Studio of Young Artists' Association

1077 Budapest, Rottenbiller u. 35.

Opening Hours

Monday 16–20

Tuesday 14–18

Wednesday —

Thursday 14–18

Friday 10–14

Saturday —

Sunday —