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How does Dorottya Vékony relate to combat sports, which are mostly associated with masculine energies? How does she appropriate and recontextualize boxing and open up space for others within it? What kind of boxing club could the gallery host? And how can this space—both in art and in real life—become a supportive space for collaboration and (female) community building?
Dorottya Vékony has long been concerned with transitional life situations, the act of letting go, and various coping mechanisms and “survival” strategies, most of which are related to the female body, the taboos associated with it, and reproductive rights. In connection with trauma and grief work related to female infertility, her attention has increasingly turned to supportive female communities and gestures that help women get through and survive difficult periods.
For this exhibition, she uses the women’s boxing club she founded as a starting point, which is a form of “training” where the...More
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How does Dorottya Vékony relate to combat sports, which are mostly associated with masculine energies? How does she appropriate and recontextualize boxing and open up space for others within it? What kind of boxing club could the gallery host? And how can this space—both in art and in real life—become a supportive space for collaboration and (female) community building?
Dorottya Vékony has long been concerned with transitional life situations, the act of letting go, and various coping mechanisms and “survival” strategies, most of which are related to the female body, the taboos associated with it, and reproductive rights. In connection with trauma and grief work related to female infertility, her attention has increasingly turned to supportive female communities and gestures that help women get through and survive difficult periods.
For this exhibition, she uses the women’s boxing club she founded as a starting point, which is a form of “training” where the...More
