Exhibition Review by By Emireth Herrera Valdés, Transborder Art.

Váradi-Fulop, Kapow Gallery, curated by Kourosh Mahboubian.

June 20th -July 13th, 2024

Finding Solitude and Building Community: Brigitta Varadi on the Artist Residency. Hungarian-born interdisciplinary artist Brigitta Varadi talks about what she worked on during her MacDowell residency, how her art practice has benefited from artist residencies, and her vision as the Residency Director at ChaNorth.

“In ordinary language, ‘modernizing’ has come to mean reducing cultural and social reality to Western formats. And today, modernism amounts to a form of complicity with colonialism and Eurocentrism. Let us bet on a modernity which, far from absurdly duplicating that of the last century, would be specific to our epoch and would echo its own problematics: an alter modernity …

Pathway is a collaborative Per Cent for Art commission between residents of Nazareth Care Village in Sligo and artists Catherine Fanning and Brigitta Varadi. Twelve sculptural ceramic artworks were designed and made for the grounds of the Care Village.

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Visual Artist Brigitta Varadi’s installation in the Castle Gallery, WE ARE NOT MEANT TO BE SEEN, was a multi-media exploration of local labor, tradition, womanhood, and their relationship to the present. Brigitta collaborated with locals from Umbertide to gather wool, thread, and tobacco as well as stories, songs, and conversations.

“Why the obsession with felting?”, she asked in a presentation on Saturday, July 29, as if standing in for the audience, and proceeded to link it with her own family history as part of the stateless Carpatho-Rusyn population group, a people without a homeland, dwellers in the high valleys of a shifting area of east central Europe, subject to various pressures from the governments where they live, including Magyarization, the forcing of Hungarian culture and language on Carpathians.

Brigitta Varadi, ChaNorth Residency Director and Artist, walks you through the process of writing and talking about your work.

These insights were shared as part of “Writing & Talking About Your Work,” a presentation Varadi gave in partnership with NYFA and the Office of the Arts, City of Alexandria.

Can an art exhibition about climate change have any potency when it avoids polemic? The Irish Cultural Centre in Paris takes a gentle approach to a giant issue. By Gemma Tipton, Wed Nov 4 2015

Hungarian-born artist Brigitta Varadi brings her work to Sligo Art Gallery for an installation piece called Crossroads. Tue 2 May 2006, Irish Independent