Author(s): Csilla MOLNÁR

Title: A NŐI LÉT TEMATIZÁLÁSA DROZDIK ORSOLYA MUNKÁSSÁGÁBAN

Source: D. Borbélyová, A. Csehiová, K. Józsa, K. Kanczné Nagy, K. Kéri, B. Kiss, B. Pukánszky, Y. Orsovics (eds.): 16th International Conference of J. Selye University. Pedagogical Sections. Conference Proceedings

ISBN: 978-80-8122-506-2

DOI: https://doi.org/10.36007/5062.2024.277

Publisher: J. Selye University, Komárno, Slovakia

PY, pages: 2024, 251-260

Published on-line: 2024

Language: hu

Abstract:
THEMATIZATION OF WOMANHOOD IN THE WORK OF ORSOLYA DROZDIK
In my presentation, I would like to review the creative work of painter and performance artist Orsolya Drozdik, professor at the University of Fine Arts. Drozdik is a significant person not only as a creative artist, but also as a theoretician, who based on his experiences abroad compiled the volume Walking Brains in 1998, which was pioneering in Hungary at the time in terms of its approach. In any case, Orsolya Drozdik's fine art works are characterized by a strong theoretical and conceptual character, which were favorably received by critics and audiences abroad. In domestic terms, her work became better known only from the mid-1990s. The discriminating attention shown to the issues of womanhood and the effort to validate the viewpoint of the female creator are decisive in her perspective. In my lecture, I will also try to review the reception regarding Orsolya Drozdik, and present the changes in the interpretations related to her.
I believe, in agreement with other commentators, that Orsolya Drozdik brought with her a consistent artistic program and the freshness typical of international post-feminist art in her sculptures, installations, photos, poems, and varied representations of them, when she returned to the domestic art life in the mid-1990s. Her work had and still has a decisive influence, without her perhaps a different kind of artistic discourse would have been created. After the regime change, Hungarian women artists began to develop a program of identity search, as part of this they sought new ways of expression: new materials, new techniques, even new art types and genres. Orsolya Drozdik played a decisive role in all of these endeavors and in their theoretical-scientific and reflective foundation.

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