1. Orshi Drozdik is influenced by Valeria Dienes, Janos Zsilka, Susan Sontag, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Luce Irigaray, Walter Benjamin, and Michel Foucault, among others.
14 Facts About Orshi Drozdik
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Orshi Drozdik's working method: critical analysis of meaning, influenced her contemporaries, her students and later generations of women artists.
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The art historian Laszlo Beke noted in an interview realized by Kata Krasznahorkai in 2017 that "Orsolya Drozdik is the first feminist artist in Hungary".
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Orshi Drozdik studied art at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts, in Budapest.
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Orshi Drozdik holds an MFA 1977 and PhD in Liberal Arts 2003.
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Orshi Drozdik searched for meaning and significance in her personal experiences; combining the textual with the visual.
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Orshi Drozdik photographed and "appropriated" these photo-images for her concept ImageBank; a semiotic study of patriarchal art history, academic training, -education; an image analysis of appropriated images; projected, manipulated and unmanipulated; these were exhibited: NudeModel, and Individual Mythology.
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Orshi Drozdik lived in Vancouver, Toronto and New York City between 1979 and 1991 with the novelist Patrick McGrath.
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Orshi Drozdik photographed the displays in European and American science museums, resulting in the series of photographs titled Dystopium Infinete.
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Orshi Drozdik exhibited at the Tom Cugliani Gallery, the Richard Anderson Gallery, and the New Museum, 1989,1991, Age and at the 9th Biennale of Sydney in 1992.
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In 2006 Orshi Drozdik published a book titled Individualis Mitologia, konceptualistol a postmodernig, a summary of her thoughts, methodology and work process, focusing on her starting point the 1970s conceptual movements in Hungary.
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From 1989 Orshi Drozdik used models of her father's brain as part of a sculptural installations.
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Orshi Drozdik continued to produce and exhibit feminist work, and deconstructing the patriarchal, scientific gaze, including, in 1986, inventing the 18th Century pseudo-persona of Edith Simpson,; a woman scientist complete with her own heritage.
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Orshi Drozdik's installation series entitled Manufacturing the Self is a deconstruction of medical representations of the female body.