INSTALLATION: SETENYI ANNA ESZTER. KITCHEN DEBATE
OPENING: 05/12/2025, 18.00 – 19.30
The window installation reinterprets the historical event of The Kitchen Debate* (1959) from a feminist perspective, highlighting how the idealization of domesticity and women’s roles became a tool of Cold War propaganda. Viewers become participants with their own bodies and gazes in a power game in which the private and the political spaces are inextricably intertwined.
Anna Eszter Setényi graduated from the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in the visual design department and is currently a student of painting. Her works have been shown in group exhibitions, among others, at the Limes Gallery in Komárom and the Velencei-tavi Gallery. In her artistic practice, she explores the transhistorical relationship between women and work, with a clear focus on its socialist and capitalist poles.
* The Kitchen Debate was a series of impromptu exchanges, with the assistance of interpreters, between U.S. Vice President (later U.S. President) Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, at the opening of the American National Exhibition in Sokolniki Park, Moscow, on July 24, 1959. The exhibition featured a model of an entire house, which the American exhibitors claimed could be afforded in the United States. The house was filled with household and leisure equipment designed to showcase the achievements of the capitalist American consumer market.
Available for viewing: 0-24h, PUCCS Contemporary Art, 1084 Budapest, Víg u. 22.
Organized by: Parallel Art Foundation
Curator: Gábor Pintér