The title of the exhibition is a reference to Virginia Woolf’s iconic book Room Of One’s Own, which obviously refers to one of the most important thesis of the book: „a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction / to create”. An intimate and dominated, occupied and exclusive space, with sufficient financial income.
As a middle-generation curator, I have to feel specifically responsible for how I create situations that reinforce the social space where women invite women in, where one generation can look to another, where continuity can be built. Where one can listen to voices are being amplified and being silenced. In this exhibition I have invited young women into a shared space, into a gallery with a female owner.
They are young artists speaking in a female voice, asking questions, listening or not listening, talking about their own experiences. They can create a fictional persona to express themselves. Their social status is different, could be a young mothers or just a university student finishing their studies. They are from all over the country: Pest, Pécs, Szeged.
They paint, embroider, make tattoos, scribble, crossing the boundaries of previously strictly expected categories. They have a distinct individual voice painting an even more exciting picture of the future of another generation launched into a common space of the gallery.
Kata Oltai
Exhibiting artists: Lili Agg, Anna Flóra Buda, Astrid Csatlós, Boglárka Dankó, Villő Juhász, Dorottya Szonja Koltay, Gréta Mihály, Orsolya Nyíri, Dorottya Poór, Abigél Wirth