No bread for us at men’s’ tables: Women in dictatorships and in modern societies (2018 -)
I have very nice breasts, if only they weren’t mine. As a single woman in her 40s, I do not receive any help from the state, I do not get any benefits. I am the one who pays the most taxes and I get the least back.
In Spain, it’s perfectly natural to be asked around the age of thirty if you want to freeze your eggs as more and more people are deciding to have children over forty. So they don’t have to worry about it.
@Installation photos: Neogrady-Kiss Barnabás, No Bread For Us At Mens’ Tables, Liget Gallery Budapest, 2024
@Graphic design: Szmolka Zoltán
The project explores the rules and boundaries women face throughout their lives in dictatorships and modern societies. It begins with the colonial and Salazar-era history of Portugal and expands into present-day Hungary.
Captured Liberties (2018-) explores Salazar-era womanhood through the personal story and family photo archive of Maria Teresa Braz. In these works, Szász playfully juxtaposes archival photographs with text from the seminal feminist literary collection New Portuguese Letters (published and banned in 1972). No Bread for Us at Men’s Tables grew out of her research into the lives of women under dictatorship and her curiosity about women’s roles and the meaning of freedom in contemporary Hungarian society. The series consists of a powerful set of portraits and excerpts from interviews with women of all backgrounds, who shared their experiences with the artist throughout the past year.
Text: Veronika Molnár
Shortlisted for the Kassák Contemporary Art Prize 2024
Main exhibitions (selected):
2024 October – November: No Bread For Us, exhibition with Rita GT, Liget Gallery, Budapest (curated by Veronika Molnár)
