Fajgerné Dudás Andrea: No FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) 2021-10-21 — 2021-11-13

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Fajgerné Dudás Andrea

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Fajgerné Dudás Andrea

No FOMO (Fear of Missing Out)

Opening: on 2021 in October 21 at 18.

Opening: Viktória Popovics, art historian

Performance: Fajgerné Dudás Andrea

It can be viewed until November 13 from Tuesday to Friday 10 to 14, and on Saturday between 10 and 13 o’clock.

“Fajgerné chooses the themes of her canvases and the scripts of her performances around the marginal subjects of female existence. She (seemingly) assumes conventional feminine roles—running the household, raising children—while, with provocative, disconcertingly intimate expressions and a taboo‑breaking attitude, she continually pushes the boundaries, challenging traditional male‑female role segregation. As a statement, the self‑portrait ‘Mother’ (_2016_) depicts her as a hundred‑armed Sivak: a woman who cooks, nurses, paints and reads feminist literature all at once. The long‑standing theme of ‘invisible work’ is central to her art, which addresses the nature of unpaid childcare and domestic tasks largely carried out by women. For her, canvas and body (her own body) are both surfaces of projection through which social messages are communicated. ‘During the pandemic, every one was confined to home, to the intimate sphere, and with institutions closing the borders between work and private life ceased to exist. As a young mother‑artist I had to become a preschool teacher, a school teacher, a house manager, all while still working and—if I had the energy—creating. The pandemic not only pushed women back into the household, but in recent times we have regressed decades in gender equality. It would seem that in such a radical, universally affecting life situation the external pressures, the external and internal expectations, the constant compulsion to achieve would cease. Yet the drive to prove oneself and the FOMO feeling (the fear of missing out) have only intensified, the expectations remaining the same, for there is this illusion that artists do nothing but create and create during the pandemic.’ The exhibition ‘No FOMO’ is about the woman, mother, artist who hides behind domestic tasks, who turns her back on traditional gender expectations so that she can perform the (creative) work needed for her career and fulfilment. Her thoughts revolve around painting and global social issues. As a white, middle‑class woman living in Central‑Eastern Europe, she is aware of her situation: she is behind Western Europe, yet happier and calmer than in the Third World. She occupies a middle ‘in‑between’ place, just as her painting straddles figurativism and abstraction in its new series.” – Popovics Viktória

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