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Mirror on the Wall

Mirror on the Wall
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    • Mirror on the Wall
    • Tükör falon
  • 1986/88
  • b&w photograph
  • 24 × 17,2 cm
Zsuzsi Ujj’s photographs, which document private performances in the absence of feminist discourse, are in many ways connected with the body politics of second-generation international feminist artists such as Carolee Schneemann and Hannah Wilke. Ujj places the female body at the center of her self-revealing, narcissistic, ironic, and provocative role-playing rituals that mimic various forms of abuse and the endurance of violence. The brutal honesty of these images was ensured by the crucial circumstance that the depicted situations, staged in the limited space of a private home, transpired without an audience and were conceived as personal messages, originally intended by the artist for private use only. E.Kü.