Location: Pikszis Kultúrpont, Budapest
Date and time: 14 May, Wednesday, 17:30
Visual artist and photographer Viola Fátyol presents a compelling exploration of Mariska Travnik’s little-known yet remarkable photographic legacy, created between 1914 and 1919. Although Travnik’s work has been included in public museum collections, featured in exhibitions, and examined in ethnographic studies as well as a television documentary on social photography, she remains a largely unrecognised figure in Hungarian cultural history. Her unique photographs, taken in rural Hungarian settings, offer a rare insider’s and distinctly young female perspective on the era and its communities.
Mariska Travnik: Young woman in a flowery blouse – Viski Károly Múzeum Kalocsa, 2023, with permission
In this presentation, Viola Fátyol not only reconstructs Travnik’s early life as a young photographer—an unsung hero of her time—but also situates Travnik’s influence within her own artistic practice. Drawing from her background as a visual artist whose practice is rooted in the Hungarian countryside, Fátyol offers insight into how her engagement with rural communities informs her methodology. Her long-standing collaboration with the women’s folk choir of Vámospércs, a community formed around shared histories and collective healing, played a pivotal role in the development of her doctoral project, If You Have a Heart, What You Did to Me Hurts You Too.
This Hungarian-language event offers a dialogue between two interwoven artistic lives—one nearly forgotten, the other deeply engaged with the complexities of memory, place, and representation.
Location: Pikszis Kultúrpont, Klubterem (1064 Budapest, Rózsa utca 64.)
Date and time: 14 May, Wednesday, 17:30
Attendance is free but registration is needed. 40 people can participate in the event, registration is required for participation, which can be done at this link: https://tally.so/r/mRD87j
The registration subpage closes automatically after the first 40 successful registrations.
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