{"id":232,"date":"2025-08-20T13:35:32","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T13:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/szaszlilla.hu\/?p=232"},"modified":"2025-08-20T17:10:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T17:10:20","slug":"mother-michael-goes-to-heaven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/szaszlilla.hu\/hu\/mother-michael-goes-to-heaven\/","title":{"rendered":"mother michael goes to heaven"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These pictures document the lives of three close friends\u2014Michael, Monica, and Alexander\u2014within the closed world of sex work. Captured between 2008 and early 2010, the series unfolds entirely within the flat they shared, a space that served at once as their workplace, home, and emotional battleground. At the center of the story is the complex, tragic relationship between Michael and Alexander. Michael\u2019s suicide in February 2010, though not directly linked to prostitution, reflects the emotional scars of unrequited love and a life marked by abandonment and trauma. Their story raises deeply human questions about love, dependency, and emotional resilience\u2014issues that extend far beyond their community. What these images ultimately revealed to me is that emotional pain and the search for connection are always particular, shaped by individual lives and circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>My self-published book, <i>Mother Michael Goes to Heaven<\/i> (2011), is<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Mother-Michael-Heaven-Lilla-Sz%C3%A1sz\/dp\/B0C343FVJD\/ref=sr_1_1?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.jkrmrJV0Q3FTt2kb0OHA_A.xJ_awtlWzAVL7wf8L9cse7xcyAjSxhkN1UvAu9THgCU&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=9798211326880&amp;qid=1755692455&amp;sr=8-1\"><b> &gt;&gt; available to purchase &lt;&lt;<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>main exhibitions:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>2023: <i>UNVEILING<\/i>, Liget Gallery, Budapest, Hungary (curator: Veronika Moln\u00e1r)<br \/>\n2019: <i>Red Umbrella Struggles<\/i>, Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art, Oldenbourg, Germany (curator: Edit Moln\u00e1r)<br \/>\n2018: <i>Women in\u00a03 Acts<\/i> (Paz Err\u00e1zuriz, Gluklya, Anastasia Khoroshilova, Ditte Lyngkaer Pedersen, Maya Schweizer, Lilla Sz\u00e1sz), Gallery INDA, Budapest, (curator: Kati Simon)<br \/>\n2018: <i>The Family of No Man<\/i> (Group exhibition featuring\u00a0494 female and inter-gender artists), Arles Photo Festival, Cosmos Arles Books (curator: Natasha Christia)<br \/>\n2018: <i>Women in\u00a03 Acts<\/i> (Paz Err\u00e1zuriz, Gluklya, Ditte Lyngkaer Pedersen, Maya Schweizer, Katarina \u0160o\u0161ki\u0107, Lilla Sz\u00e1sz), Galerie\u00a0Fotohof, Salzburg, (curator: Kati Simon)<br \/>\n2017: <i>The Way We See. An Overview of Hungarian Photography<\/i>, National Museum in Warsaw (curator: Gabriella Csizek)<br \/>\n2013: <i>Mother Michael Goes to Heaven<\/i>, Gallery Liget, Budapest (solo exhibition)<br \/>\n2012: <i>Photo Espana \u2013 From Here<\/i>: a group exhibition with Richard Avedon, Richard Billingham and Paz Errazuriz\u2013 Museo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Photo Espana, 2012 \u2013 The exhibition won the Prize of the audience (El Premio del Publico, PHE 2012) (curator: Gerardo Mosquera)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These pictures document the lives of three close friends\u2014Michael, Monica, and Alexander\u2014within the closed world of sex work. Captured between 2008 and early 2010, the series unfolds entirely within the flat they shared, a space that served at once as their workplace, home, and emotional battleground. 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