{"id":2046877,"date":"2026-03-24T17:08:43","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T16:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exindex.hu\/?p=2046877"},"modified":"2026-04-03T10:25:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T09:25:04","slug":"a-puszta-eleten-tul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exindex.hu\/en\/hirek\/a-puszta-eleten-tul\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond bare life"},"content":{"rendered":"

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2026. 03. 27. \u2013 04. 30.
\r\nBudapest IX. Dr\u00e9gely utca 19.<\/p>\r\n

Opening: 2026. m\u00e1rcius 26. 18.00<\/p>\r\n

Exhibiting Artists:
\r\nMohamed ABDELKARIM, SAMMY BALOJI&FILIP DE BOECK, Tina BARA, Rufina BAZLOVA, Mohamed BOUROUISSA, CSORBA Eszter, FARKAS Aliz, F\u00c1TYOL Viola, Andreas FOGARASI, KOLTAY Dorottya Szonja, Halina SKIBNIEWSKA, SZEBENI Andr\u00e1s, SZIDU Evdoxia
\r\nContributor: HODWORKS<\/p>\r\n

Curated by
\r\nL\u00c1Z\u00c1R Eszter, NAGY Edina<\/p>\r\n

On view
\r\nTuesday\u2013Sunday 4\u20138 PM<\/p>\r\n

\u201cIt\u2019s good as long as it hurts because we know we\u2019re alive.\u201d The title of Eszter Csorba\u2019s painting might as well serve as the motto of the exhibition. The words of elderly patients waiting in the corridor of the R\u00e1koskereszt\u00far polyclinic seem to continue echoing within the walls of the former medical facility chosen as the exhibition\u2019s venue. When we experience physical pain, we place our trust in doctors, hoping for a cure. But what about pain that cannot be localised in the body; pain that remains \u201cinvisible\u201d? Such kinds of pain, and the mental challenges connected to them, are treated as the neglected stepchildren of the care system to this day.<\/p>\r\n

Formulated almost half a century ago, the 1978 Declaration of Alma-Ata on primary health care is still relevant in its assertion that health means a \u201cstate of complete physical, mental and social well-being.\u201d Achieving this requires the contribution of not only the healthcare system, but also the social and economic sectors. In contrast, our prevailing notions of health still tend to be confined to maintaining physical capacity and sustaining performance, while mental and social dimensions are increasingly marginalised. Our physical and mental integrity as well as our overall well-being are founded on a sense of personal security \u2013 something that, much like the right to primary health care, is in fact by far not equally guaranteed to all.<\/p>\r\n

For the most part, the works presented in the exhibition draw on examples of institutional healthcare from the Cold War era which, by their very nature \u2013whether oppressive, progressive, or paradoxically combining the two \u2013 reflect the ambivalence of the era. Comparing the healthcare infrastructures of the former socialist bloc and colonised countries can also be illuminating with regard to the forms and scope in which certain innovative initiatives could appear in colonial and later postcolonial contexts. When we speak about health institutions, we tend to imagine concrete physical spaces: a hospital, a psychiatric institution, or a sanatorium. The exhibition\u2019s routes are likewise organised along such spaces \u2013 for example, a mental asylum, a night sanatorium for workers, or a space of enforced invisibility such as \u201cTripperburg.\u201d These spatial categories are not only linked to particular types of illness and specific measures but also illustrate the historical transformation of these.<\/p>\r\n

The exhibition forms part of a long-term education, research, and exhibition project launched in the autumn of 2024. The term \u201cbare life\u201d in the title is borrowed from the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben. In the Agambenian sense, bare life refers to the mere fact of biological existence, far removed from complete physical, mental and social well-being. The exhibition\u2019s title refers to those condemned to bare life \u2013 people left to fend for themselves by precisely those social and economic sectors that should be providing the best possible health for them.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2026. 03. 27. \u2013 04. 30. Budapest IX. Dr\u00e9gely utca 19. Opening: 2026. m\u00e1rcius 26. 18.00 Exhibiting Artists: Mohamed ABDELKARIM, SAMMY BALOJI&FILIP DE BOECK, Tina BARA, Rufina BAZLOVA, Mohamed BOUROUISSA, CSORBA Eszter, FARKAS Aliz, F\u00c1TYOL Viola, Andreas FOGARASI, KOLTAY Dorottya Szonja, Halina SKIBNIEWSKA, SZEBENI Andr\u00e1s, SZIDU Evdoxia Contributor: HODWORKS Curated by L\u00c1Z\u00c1R Eszter, NAGY Edina […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2046880,"parent":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2046877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hirek"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exindex.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2046877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exindex.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exindex.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exindex.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exindex.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2046877"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/exindex.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2046877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2047114,"href":"https:\/\/exindex.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2046877\/revisions\/2047114"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exindex.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2046880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exindex.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2046877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exindex.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2046877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exindex.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2046877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}