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THE GOOD LIFE IS OVER reinterprets the question of personal roots through the merging of Roma and South American Indigenous cultures. Situating this gesture within a broader political framework, the linking of these cultural horizons makes visible the shared legacy of historical violence structured by colonisation and Christianisation.

The mask is not merely a unifying motif of the exhibition. In the works of Clara Farkas and the invited Roma artists, it emerges as a shared conceptual reference point, generating a collective language in which concealment and visibility operate not as opposites, but as mutually constitutive strategies.

THE GOOD LIFE IS OVER raises the question of whether the idea of a feminist social structure can only emerge as a counterpoint to patriarchy, necessarily building upon and deriving from it, even in contradiction.

The answer is no. The lived experience of the female body creates the possibility of moving beyond historical frameworks. Grounded in previously stigmatised and tabooed forms of physical experience and embodied presence, it allows the symbolic battle of intimacy to unfold.

The title of the exhibition was inspired by the final words addressed by God to Eve in the scene of expulsion from Paradise in José Saramago’s novel Cain.

The project was realised with the support of the Balogh Paci Scholarship.�This activity is funded by the European Union within the framework of the ROVA – Roma for Change project, coordinated in Hungary by the Autonómia Foundation.