Personal artworks

Allowing Myself to Be

Led by her own curiosity, Szekeres photographs childbirths, the physical and emotional intensity of which is accompanied by a deeper and deeper connection to her own desires, fears, and strug-
gles.

This series explores childbirth from the perspective of someone who has not yet experienced

it by abstractly depicting the idea of fertility, the sensations of menstruation, and the tempera-
ture and nature of the different phases of the cycle. Through these images, we can relate to the

process by which Szekeres began to discover and explore symbols of fertility and sexuality in eve-
ryday situations: reflections, botanical surfaces, mould, a pudding covered in sauce in which the

shape of an embryo is drawn, or even a light bulb resembles a cell.
The birth images depict home births, a possible form of autonomy of the female body, which is in
sharp contrast to the medicalised, institutionalised practice of childbirth.
Everyone from the government to our own family members want women to give birth. How can
we, in the face of this pressure, make our intentions clear?
Attitudes to the body are inevitably political: every system has its own set of rules about the
body, especially the female body. We know, for example, that under capitalism, a lack of female
self-confidence is one of the biggest driving forces behind the beauty industry. Szekeres strives to
photograph what happens when we step outside of this framework and make way to experience
our bodies from the inside rather than the outside.

My marseilles dreams

First thing in the morning: I write down my dreams, sometimes with an explanatory diagram.
I took this series of photos when I was living in Marseille, during the covid and I used to call the films in my bathroom. It was a difficult time for me, meanwhile photography was an important source of pleasure.
At the beginning of 2023, I selected again and bound this material in a hardcover book. On the cover I printed dream drawings from my diaries in Marseille.

Arrived early

She began to deal with the phenomenon of prematurity through portraits and interviews. In the current exhibition, new photographs are added to the earlier material: an extended version is presented, in which not only premature adults but also mothers, doctors and therapists are shown, emphasising the complexity of the situation of those involved in the process. In addition to individual and family portraits that enhance the personal, more abstract works that evoke metaphors of birth and birth or emphasise the presence or absence of touch are also shown. The exhibition is also an attempt to adapt the book spatially, so that the photographs are complemented by audio material/interviews in which personal experiences of birth and separation from the mother are juxtaposed with medical experiences and hospital conditions, breaking the silence around premature birth.

Két fiatal pár szerencsét próbál a nagyvilágban

I am using pictures from the 70s, made by my grandparents, telling two stories, with four points of view. We can choose between the thoughts of the four characters, as we dive into the book.