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Dóra Maurer

Part 2

73 mins

Dóra Maurer is a key figure in the Hungarian art scene, known for her innovative approach and her commitment to exploring the intersections between various mediums. Her work, deeply rooted in the context of an independent and vibrant artistic community, reflects a layered history of collaboration and resistance during the socialist period in Hungary.

Beginning with graphic art in the 1950s, Maurer pushed the medium’s structural boundaries before expanding into photography, experimental cinema, and installation. Her recurring focus on movement, displacement, perception, and transformation resonates throughout a diverse and evolving body of work. Often working in dialogue with musicians, and active as both educator and curator, Maurer has consistently fostered spaces for creative experimentation.

Her ability to navigate and synthesize artistic forms across media has made her a singular and influential voice in contemporary art. Unconfined by any one format, Maurer’s work remains dynamic, exacting, and deeply responsive to the world around her.

—F.R.

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Sat 24 May

21:30 - 23:00 / ACUD KINO

SEVEN TRIALS
Hétpróba, 1981–1982, 56’ 00”, 16mm, DCP, sound

Behaviour, thinking, perception, testimony, training of opera singer Eszter Póka and her four children, Kati, Eszter, Erzsi and Jani.

INTER-IMAGES 1–3
1989–1990, 17’ 00”, 16mm, color, DCP, sound

This film consists of three loosely connected etudes. The titles are the following: Delay, Balance-Flow, Antizeotrop. The general subject of the film is the hiding of movements behind different systems of masks.

Dóra Maurer

Part 2

Sat 24 May

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