Kitart. Felemel. Összetart.
In recent years, visual artist Zsuzsi Simon has explored expectations, taboos, and stereotypes related to gender roles. She often uses her own body and experiences as a medium, thereby directly and sensitively linking personal and social issues. A hallmark of her feminist approach is her view that the female body is both an experiential and a political space.
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Her new works focus on female strength, which manifests not only in the life of the individual but also in the functioning of contemporary women’s communities. She invited women who are active athletes and aware of their strength to collaborate, so that through movement they could jointly explore the possible manifestations of strength in everyday, conflict-ridden, tense, or even traumatic situations. Experiencing the body—through the demonstration or reenactment of various gymnastic exercises—serves as an artistic method that opens the way to exploring contemporary meanings of “female strength.”
The project raises questions that focus on the interrelationships between gender, the body, representation, and power. What is the relationship between the images of muscular, sexy “superwomen” conveyed by visual culture and everyday reality? How can anger—labeled as destructive and irrational—be transformed into liberating energy capable of reshaping social relations? And what do strength and letting go mean in undervalued areas such as care work, housework, or self-care?
Kisterem
Kisterem is a contemporary art gallery in Budapest, founded in 2006 with the aim to showcase progressive tendencies of Hungarian contemporary art.