2024/05/01

Zsofi Valyi-Nagy Decodes Vera Molnar’s “Lettres de Ma Mère”

“For a quarter-century, this mother-daughter relationship was strained by geopolitical circumstances, kept alive only through these messages—which, due to practices of censorship, could not say much at all. We cannot help but wonder what was left unsaid.”
– Art historian Zsofi Valyi-Nagy, on the letters Vera Molnar received from her Mother between 1947 and 1971. In a feature, Valyi-Nagy reads deep into Lettres de ma mère main et machine (1981-91), an artwork inspired by the missives, and uses media archaeological methods to analyze the legacy of the late generative artist.
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