The ISBN+ invites you
to the opening of Krisztina Arláth’s exhibition ‘Recent Letters from my Nuns’ on Tuesday, February 18, 2025, at 6 pm.
Address: 1085 Budapest, Baross street 42.
Screening: 20 February, 18:00
Screening: 22 February, 18:00
Opening by Andrea Tarczali, art historian
The exhibition is a video, sculpture, photo and textile installation, in which
a small slice of the social situation of women is presented, referring back to the 17th and 18th centuries, and comparing it with our own time. The videos reflect Paula de Odivelas, a 17th century nun, and King Joao V of Portugal, in the gardens of the Palace of Mafra in Portugal. In addition, the music, about contemporary correspondence, is set to love letters written by Mariana Alcoforado, a 17th-century Portuguese nun, to a soldier in Versailles. The other digital works are video documentations of sculptural works inspired by Italian nun artists in Rome, placed in different parts of the city. The stone sculptures and textile paintings reflect on the misery of nun artists, forgotten for centuries but successful in their own time, in a contemporary transcription.
Krisztina Arláth graduated as a sculptor from the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in 2014 and is currently a doctoral student at the same university. Her research focuses on the relationship between the metropolis and its women artists. Besides textile and video installations and animations, she also makes stone sculptures.