Anca Bucur / Hajnalka Tulisz
Artists in Residence September–October 2024, Romania / Hungary /
© Hajnalka Tulisz, Anca Bucur
Anca Bucur
Anca Bucur (b. 1989) is a visual artist and writer, based in Bucharest. Her work is research-based and spans different media, usually talking the form of installations. Lately, she has been focusing on issues of industrial extractivism, agricultural collectivization, and social reproduction labor within local histories and places. She is interested in the double unifying character of the artwork as an activity entailing both knowledge production and political action. Anca Bucur is the author of several texts published in brochures and collective volumes, a member of frACTalia editorial collective and of the Cooperative for Research and Political Research Ecaterina Arbore.
STATEMENT
During her residency at MQ, she will continue the research underpinning her work A labor of love which deals with the process of collectivization of agriculture in state socialist Romania. Interested in the social and economic structural transformations that this process produced, Anca Bucur centers her research on the role and labor of peasant women within the cooperatives. While trying to offer a counter-narrative to the mainstream anticommunist literature written on the subject, she looks into the digital archive of the most important gazettes, newspapers and magazines of that period in order to better understand the material historical realities of the socialist village and of the peasant women. Her research also considers socialist feminist and Marxist texts written by political theorists and activists on the condition of women workers in neo-serfdom and socialist Eastern Europe as well as literature or artworks which deal with agrarian collectivism.
Hajnalka Tulisz
Before I started my studies at Hungarian University of Fine Arts in Budapest, I learned photography in Székesfehérvár. In 2014 I obtained my MA at the Intermedia
Department. Two years later I was accepted for a one-year postgraduate studies in France, at École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts de Lyon.
I attended residencies, for instance in Strasbourg, France (scholarship by Budapest Gallery, 2022), in Chisinau, Moldova (Oberliht, 2015) and I participated in the
Sommer Akademie, Salzburg (scholarship by Erste Stiftung) in 2016.
From 2019 I have been a doctoral student in Budapest.
STATEMENT
In my art usually I am dealing with the question of objects and its form. The object-like elements of the non-material things as the language and as the mental world.
I realised that many well-known objects detached of its environment and omitting its details can be watched in its pure form and in this case I can see them
anthropomorphised so in this way they became meaningful to me. I started to make images based on these found situations.
I spent four months in Cluj Napoca, where I collected photos of ‘patchwork’ fences, which are interesting as geometrical forms and its layer-like structure.
I guess, these kind of fences, abandoned objects are more typical in the not so tidy East-European cities.
Unfortunately I did not have a chance to spend enough time in Vienna to discover it in this aspect and I miss getting to know it better.
In MQ Vienna I would like to use my collection as base for artworks. I would make big textile objets after the makeshift fences and paintings and drawings.