AURORA KIRÁLY
  • Projects
    • Photography >
      • Viewfinder, 2014-ongoing
      • Viewfinder Clash, 2020-ongoing
      • Timeline of Transformation, 2025
      • How You Remember Space and Architecture, 2023
      • Larva, chrysalis, butterfly, 2023
      • Duo, 2023
      • Rhythm, 2023
      • from tiny spores..., 2023
      • Ecology of the Afterlife, 2022-2024
      • Architecture. Patterns. Self-Portraits, 2022
      • Stillness Studies at Villa Empain, 2022
      • History. Pain. Dust, 2022
      • Viewfinder. Diffraction, 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
    • Textile Works >
      • Héroïnes - Spinning the fibers into fine yarn #1, #2, #3, 2024
      • Héroïnes - Spinning the fibers into fine yarn, 2024
      • Women at work II, 2024
      • Women at work I, 2024
      • 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
    • Video >
      • Larva, chrysalis, butterfly, 2023
      • Rhythm, 2023
    • Paintings >
      • Héroïnes, 2013-2021
      • Tales from a Topographic Skin, 2013
      • Claude Cahun Revisited, 2012
    • Drawings >
      • Structures, 2018
    • Mixed media / Objects / Installations >
      • Spin, baby, spin!, 2023
      • Settings, 2018
      • News Remix, 2016-2017
      • Life-Love-Memory, 2016
      • News Convertor, 2016
      • Viewfinder Mock-Up, 2016-ongoing
      • 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
    • I move the city through my memory
    • Paris Photo 2024_Voices Section
    • Back Stages, ARAC Bucharest, 2023
    • 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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TIMELINE OF TRANSFORMATION
2025
Installation

The project combines two series: ink drawings on semi-transparent fabric (A4 format) depicting early textile machines from the beginnings of industrialization. These are based on archival photographs from Mulhouse, where I had a residency in 2024. Since creating them, I’ve wanted to connect these historical references with a real, contemporary textile factory - although finding access and approval took some time. Fortunately, in 2025 I was was invited for a project in Reșița, Romania, a city that was once a major industrial center before the fall of communism. I that respect I documented the women work in a small garment factory.

In the new photographs, the drawings are mounted on transparent plexiglass panels placed in the foreground, with the everyday reality of the 
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​factory visible behind them - women working at sewing machines or engaged in different stages of production.
Alongside this, I continued developing also the Women at Work series, expanding the wallpaper patterns derived from documentary photographs taken in the same factory. Focusing on the choreography of the workers’ bodies, I created several patterns that are combined for exhibition display with close-up photographs of hands in motion, bodily gestures, and objects involved in the production process.

​These images are either layered onto or placed beside the wallpaper patterns, creating a dialogue between surface and action.

TIMELINE OF TRANSFORMATION
​2025
Digital photographs
60 x 90 cm 

TIMELINE OF TRANSFORMATION
​2024
Series of ink drawings on semi-transparent fabric
20 x 30 cm 
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