My Land. Emőke Kerekes

Finisaj @ Camera K’ARTE → 14 Nov. → 7 pm

(In the presence of the artist)

Emőke Kerekes’ art project, My Land (2021-2024), explores the evolution of the relationship to archaic land ownership in Eastern European societies. Emőke’s work links historical and political changes in the region, such as collectivisation, land restitution and Romania’s accession to the EU, with the metamorphosis of people’s relationship to the landscape. His work reflects in a unique way on archaic relationships to land and the impact of the political and economic events that have influenced them. He does this while also referring back to the painterly, visual antecedents of landscape representation. Emőke Kerekes’ work is personally motivated, revealing social and historical narratives approached from the perspectives of personal and collective memory. Photography, as a visual representation of social realities, is Emőke’s way of understanding the complex relationships between past and present. Through years of research, interviews and the use of archival material, the artist constructs her work to enable viewers to reinterpret the dynamics of Eastern European history and society.

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Emőke was born in 1980 in Transylvania, Romania. After the

Romanian Revolution of 1989, she emigrated to Hungary with her

family in 1992, growing up in Budapest.

In 2015 she returned to her homeland, Havadtő, where she and

her husband founded the KopiaKollektiva Association. The

association promotes contemporary photography in culturally marginalised small villages.

After completing her bachelor’s degree in photography at the

Moholy-Nagy University (MOME), she graduated from the Târgu

Mures University of Arts (UAT) in 2024 with a Master’s degree in

Arts and New Media.

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Organizer: K’ARTE.

Supported by: Bioeel.

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