AURORA KIRÁLY
  • Projects
    • Photography >
      • Architecture. Patterns. Self-Portraits, 2022
      • Stillness Studies at Villa Empain, 2022
      • History. Pain. Dust, 2022
      • Viewfinder. Diffraction, 2021
      • Viewfinder Clash, 2020-2021
      • Soft Drawings, 2021
      • Subconscious Narratives, 2021
      • Equal. Art and Feminism in Nowadays Romania, 2016
      • Reconnection, 2015-2016
      • Red Light / Green Light, 2014
      • Failed Re-enactement of Claude Cahun's Medusa, 2013
      • The Red Dress, 2001
      • Feminine Archeology, 2000
      • Kaleidoscope. Selfportrait, 1998
      • Untitled, 1997
      • Melancholia series, 1997-1999
    • Paintings >
      • Héroïnes, 2013-2021
      • Tales from a Topographic Skin, 2013
      • Claude Cahun Revisited, 2012
    • Drawings >
      • Structures, 2018
      • Viewfinder Mock-Up, 2016-ongoing
      • Viewfinder, 2014-2015
    • Textile Works >
      • How You Remember Space & Architecture (working title), 2022
      • Ideas Come & Go, 2022
      • Walking, Breathing, 2021
      • Soft Drawings _ Subconscious Narratives - Fountain, 2021
      • Soft Drawings _ Subconscious Narratives, 2020-2021
      • 50s or Soft Despair, 2020
      • ​Ee um fah um soo Foo suii too eem oo…, 2018
    • Mixed media / Objects / Installations >
      • Settings, 2018
      • News Remix, 2016-2017
      • Life-Love-Memory, 2016
      • News Convertor, 2016
      • Drifting..., 2016
      • Untitled_Mixed Diary, 2013
    • Artist Books >
      • Diary Study #1_April-June 2016
    • Research/Documentary projects >
      • WITNESSES XXI – REVISITING THE PAST project presentation, 2007-2012 >
        • Interview with Ion Grigorescu, by Magda Radu
        • Interview with Geta Brătescu, by Magda Radu
        • Interview with Peter Jacobi, by Oana Tănase
        • Interview with Constantin Flondor, by Oana Tănase
        • Interview with Gheorghe Vida, by Magda Radu
        • Interview with Ioana Vlasiu, by Magda Radu
        • Interview with Alexandra Titu, by Cristiana Radu
        • Interview with Wanda Mihuleac, by Cristiana Radu
        • Interview with Mihai Oroveanu, by Oana Tănase
        • Interview with Mircea Florian, by Raluca Nestor
        • Interview with Magda Cârneci, by Cristiana Radu
  • News / Archive
    • Paris Photo Fair with Anca Poterașu Gallery, 2022
    • Paris Photo Fair with Anca Poterașu Gallery, 2021
    • from somewhere other than myself @ Anca Poterașu Gallery, 2021
    • The Show That Never Was @ Anca Poterașu Gallery, 2021
    • Corsets Then & Now @Zina Gallery, 2020-2021
    • Xplore Festival #15 @ WASP, 2020
    • ARCO Madrid - Booth 9G02
    • Ex-East. Past and recent stories of the Romanian avant-gardes, Espace Niemeyer, Paris; 2019
    • At Different Angles @MNAC Bucharest, 2018
    • Conjectures @Anca Poterașu Spinnerei Leipzig, 2018
    • Orient / Something in Between, BOZAR, Bruxelles, 2018
    • Woman, All Too Woman @Art Museum Timișoara, 2018
    • Constructed Geometries @ Anca Poterașu Gallery, 2017
    • Ex Future @ Arcub, 2016
    • Our History about the Others @ Scena9, 2016
    • Girls with Ideas [Boys and Paintings] @ Lateral Art Space, 2016
    • Reality Check @ Calina Gallery_March 2016
    • Finalist FID Prize_March 2016
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HÉROÏNES series
2013-2021
Acryl on paper, mounted on cutting wooden boards
10 pieces
24x35 cm

Titles:
Héroïnes, 2013_After Claude Cahun_Untitled (Self-Portrait), ca. 1928 
Héroïnes, 2013_After Barbara Kruger_Your body is a battleground,1989
Héroïnes, 2013_After Sophie Calle_The Wedding Dress_ from True Stories, 2010
Héroïnes, 2013_After Cindy Sherman_Untitled Film Still #48, 1979
Héroïnes, 2013_After Kiki Smith_Ginzer, 2000
Héroïnes, 2013_After Sarah Lucas_Au Naturel, 1994
Héroïnes, 2013_After Tracey Emin_I Whisper to My Past, Do I have Another Choice, 2010
Héroïnes, 2013_After Ann Hamilton_ Lineament - book/ball, 1994
Héroïnes, 2013_After Janine Antoni_Touch, video still, 2002
Héroïnes, 2013_After Marina Abramovic_The Artist Is Present, performance, 2010
Héroïnes, 2015_After Martha Wilson_Name≠Fate, 2009
Héroïnes, 2015_After Martha Wilson_Beauty is in the Eye, 2014
Héroïnes, 2015_After Francesca Woodman, “then at one point i did not need to translate the notes; they went directly to my hands,” , 1976
Héroïnes, 2015_After Sonia Delaunay. Couverture de Berceau, 1911​
Héroïnes, 2018_After Marilena Preda-Sânc_My Body is Space in Space, Time in Time and Memory of All, 1983-1985
Héroïnes, 2018_After Pipilotti Rist_Ever Is Over All, 1997
Héroïnes, 2020_After Diane Simpson_Underskirt_1986
Héroïnes, 2020_After Lygia Clark_Abyssal mask with eye-patch_1968
Héroïnes, 2020_After Sherrie Levine, Untitled (Presidential Collage 4), 1979
Héroïnes, 2020_After Martha Rossler_Semiotics of the Kitchen, 1975


​The series entitled Héroïnes takes the works of important women artists and transfers them into paintings, regardless of their previous medium. Iconic art works are represented, but not by the means of photography (specific to documentation and art work reproduction) but by painting, like the copies made after art masters, only this time the copies are made after women artists.

An archive with a selection of works by women artists from modern and contemporary art history is made, with the aim to show a personal Top 10.  Each different selection of ten does not represent a permanent and definitive choice.  Other works are added later in this archive of sketches, as it is a project in progress. At the time when is presented in an exhibition the selection reflects the choice of that specific moment.

The title takes over the name of a literary text by artist Claude Cahun entitled Héroïnes (published in 1925), a series of monologues of key female figures in literature and history. The subtitles refer to the artistic endeavor made by Sherrie Levine, who is re-photographing famous works from the history of photography.
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