Opening: 20. Juni 2024, 6 PM

Photographer and media artist Anna Fabricius has been researching the changing cultural and personality-shaping role of work for many years. In her new work, through the social relations of transnational families, she highlights the underlying tensions in the functioning of global capitalism, including the indispensable yet undervalued role of invisible labour in ensuring social reproduction.

The migration of workers started taking on massive proportions from the end of the nineteenth century, a process in which Hungary is still involved as both a sender and a receiver country. Despite our involvement, all we have is a fragmented image of the people who work away from their families to provide for the present and future of those who remain at home. Anna Fabricius has spent the last year collaborating with workers from the Far East, employed in agriculture or process manufacturing. The works they have created together are not documentary representations, but instead, through situations created for the sake of making videos and taking photos, they demonstrate the personal experience of inclusion, acceptance, feeling of absence, familial love and responsibility. The organising force behind the exhibition is ‘invisibility’. Migrant workers are invisible to the majority society and their contribution to our common wellbeing, as well as hidden forms of caring for each other and their loved ones.

Winner of the 2023 Kassák Contemporary Art Prize, Anna Fabricius is a lecturer at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design. Her photo- and video works are regularly featured in national and international exhibitions.

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The artworks were created in collaboration with 
Aheswar Rai, Mana Maya Tamang, Insayatul Urbayanti, Myo Min Soe, Su Thaw Han, Angrej Singh, Lakhesar Bhinder Singh, Maninderjit Singh, Kitipong Wongsai, Mr. Orathai Sengha, Mrs. Orathai Sengha, Ramanjeet Kaur, Mandeep Singh, Wutt Yee Htoo, Cho Nwe Lwin, Kyi Myint Aung, Nguyen Phoung Linh, Mi Ei Ei Hlaing, Zin Mar Moe, Navdeep Singh

Interpretators: Yolanda Abel, Wittawin Panta, Navdeep Singh
Employers: Bio-Fungi Kft., Martontej
Special thanks: Ágnes Vattamány, Adrienn Szénási, Ágoston Bodó, Zoltán Golicza, Zoltán Szőczey, Csaba Damokos

Exhibition
Curator: Judit Csatlós 
Graphic design: Adrienn Császár – Nóra Kaszanyi
Translation: Dániel Sipos 
Production: Ferenc Badak, Attila Batári, Gyula Kemény, Judit Kodolányi, Sándor Pátkai 
Communication: Renáta Szikra
Administration: Erzsébet Károly