Boglárka Dankó’s figures emerge from under the watchful eye of the Mother of the Night, a large textile installation depicting a witch becoming a crow. They all arrive from a nocturnal realm, a time in which bodies loosen their borders, identities drift and transformation becomes possible. A temporal and symbolic space associated with women, secrecy, care and forms of life that resist discipline.

In this exhibition Dankó’s textile works are exclusively populated by female figures who travel from mythology into the present. They appear within well-known art historical and cultural scenarios, yet their presence delicately reaches beyond these inherited frameworks. They move through continuous states of becoming. Women overtaking masculine roles, human bodies gladly evolving into animals as their femininity intensifies, remaining open to further metamorphosis meanwhile rejecting the idea of the human as the highest evolutionary form.
Embroidery, beads, pearls, sequins and ornamental elements saturate and overflow the surfaces in collage-like compositions, building dense and tactile fields. Reclaimed textiles and seamwork construct the interplay between the artworks. Still slow, still haptic, still nocturnal.

Thinking within matriarchal systems, Dankó extends this logic to both her iconography and her material choices. Textiles carry transgenerational memories of domestic labour, care, survival and elevated into autonomous artworks. In this way, these materials keep their own original histories while assuming new authority.

Curated by: Éda Meggyesházi

Graphic design: Fanni Lévai
The exhibition is part of the CSAK ezt az 1-et kértem! – Feminist Festival.