Innovative open-air exhibition downstairs at Gödör

Enormous steam iron producing real steam and a huge plastic leg in nylon stockings among other grotesque objects at Erzsébet tér


Passersby can attend to a unique exhibition every day from March 8 to April 8 when they are walking down- or upstairs at Gödör Klub, Erzsébet tér. Not only is the location unusual for an exhibition, but its subject as well: several tools and equipments which have facilitated women’s life are displayed on the stairs to celebrate women and their role.


The exhibition was created to call attention to ladies and their status as a woman, as a wife and a mother. Although I am aware of the fact, that household gadgets play an important role in our life and enhance our everyday duties significantly, I cannot relate a vacuum cleaner or a washing machine to women’s role in the society and their celebration. So, why do huge household machines and cosmetic articles represent women and their roles?


I agree that the huge leg or the giant lipstick is a shockingly rare spectacle in the heart of the capital. Still, I think that the exhibition fails to transmit the creators’ original idea about showing women’s role and mission in the 20th and 21st centuries.


The exhibition is a surprising view but nothing else.