OFFSCREEN 2023

Orshi Drozdik (1946) was one of the first Eastern European women artists in the 1970s to embark on a practice in which photography, performance, and the body converged in a re-examination of social and sexual identities. As a student at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest, she elaborated on a method of critical examination of patriarchal visual representation, drawing on the traditions of historical Hungarian feminism and her linguistic, semiotic studies.

The artist specially selected works for the OFFSCREEN 2023 from the strongly connected and intertwined art works from the period between 1979-1981: Diverting the Diagonal: On a Primed Canvas (1980), performance, video, Diverted Diagonal: On a Primed Canvas (1979-81) photographs, xerographies, Hijacking the Shadow (1981) xerographies, I Try to Be Transparent (to Art History) (1980), performance, video. This series in diverse mediums: performance, video, photographs, xerographies belongs to her theoretical thinking and notes: The Medium of My Life is My Art, My Medium is My Body, (1980) which is about medialization and remedialization.