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born 1946 Hungary

Orshi Drozdik (born 1946 in Hungary) is a feminist visual artist based in New York City. Her work consists of drawings, paintings, photographs, etchings, performances, videos, sculptures, installations, academic writings and fiction, that explore connected themes, sometimes over an extended period.

Hungary
Conceptual artists
Feminists
Painters
Photographers

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I rather consider myself as the pursuer of the ideas and artistic movement of Hungarian feminism that started prior to WWI.

It is truly frightening for a young woman artist to separate herself from the patriarchal artistic discourse that she learnt from, that does not support her and that she would like to be part of.

There was no contemporary circle that would support me in these ideas.

But there was patriarchal communist political propaganda: “equality,” “emancipation of women” that voiced the political and social rights of women.

Despite and along with this, censored feminism and the art of new dance, the movement art that pleaded the “divine” body resonated in me when I contrasted the experiences of my “bodily existence” with traditional and patriarchal representation of the woman’s body.

The statement was written by the artist (2021)

When I arrived at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in 1970, my intention crystallized.

I was a follower of the historical feminist movement in Hungary and of the liberating force of the new dance movement which developed within its artistic context, and which I named “free dance”.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Orshi Drozdik (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.