Zenta Dzividzinska’s work at a roundtable at the Zimmerli Art Museum exhibition opening
Zenta Dzividzinska’s work was discussed at a roundtable on the occasion of the exhibition “Communism Through the Lens: Everyday Life Captured by Women Photographers in the Dodge Collection” curated by Maria Garth at the Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, on April 29, 2021.
The recording of the event is available on the Zimmerli Art Museum’s YouTube channel here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btHF69FZfgA or click on the image below:
The event featured a curator-led overview of the exhibition by Maria Garth, Graduate Curatorial Assistant (Dodge Fellow) at the Zimmerli Art Museum, followed by a roundtable discussion with guest speakers Alise Tifentale, PhD., and Mark Allen Svede, Ph.D., , Ohio State University, and a question-and-answer session with the audience.
The event was introduced by Julia Tulovsky, Ph.D., Curator at the Zimmerli Art Museum, and the discussion was moderated by Jane Sharp, Ph.D., Research Curator at the Zimmerli Art Museum and Professor of Art History at Rutgers University.
The exhibition is scheduled to open in May (exact date tbc) and to be on view virtually until October 17, 2021 with the possibility of in-person viewing in the fall, depending on the COVID-19 situation and related safety measures in place at the time.
As part of the roundtable, Alise Tifentale delivered a talk, “Zenta Dzividzinska (1944-2011): Photography between art, photo-club, and private diary.” Learn more about the talk on Tifentale’s website here, http://www.alisetifentale.net/article-archive/zimmerli-opening-talk or click on the image below to watch the recording of the event on the Zimmerli Art Museum’s YouTube channel:
About the exhibition “Communism Through the Lens: Everyday Life Captured by Women Photographers in the Dodge Collection:”
“Spanning almost the entirety of the Soviet Union’s history from the 1920s through the 1990s, this exhibition of rarely-seen images explores themes of political art, documentary photography, and gender, offering a historical look at how women photographers interpreted life in the communist state. [. . .]
Despite the Soviet Union’s rhetoric of gender equality, women of both generations from all over the Soviet Union shared a range of personal and professional challenges in advancing their careers as photographers.
Bringing together over one hundred and thirty works from the Zimmerli’s Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection of Nonconformist Art from the Soviet Union, including photography books and journals, the majority of which are displayed for the first time, this is the first exhibition at the Zimmerli devoted to photography by women from the Soviet Union. It also presents a survey of approaches to photography to highlight for the first time the central role played by women in redefining photography’s social reach – and expressivity – as perhaps the quintessential modernist medium.”
Learn more about the exhibition on the Zimmerli Art Museum’s website (click on the image below):
