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Eszter Salamon

Mothers and Daughters
M Others Eszter Salamon Photo credit Ferenc Salamon

Mothers and Daughters is the Norwegian premiere of the latest work in the MONUMENT series by the internationally renowned choreographer and performer Eszter Salamon. Set in the skylit spaces of Kunstnernes Hus, the piece features two Norway-based mother-daughter pairs, Sulekha Ali Omar and Safia Abdi Haase; Christine Nypan and Drude Haga. It is a performative monument to "m/othering" that rehearses transgenerational relationships other than the ones we are expected to practice.

About the artist

Eszter Salamon is a choreographer, artist-researcher and performer who lives between Berlin, Paris and Budapest. She is currently completing a Ph.D. in artistic research at the National Academy of the Arts in Oslo. Salamon works at the intersection of documentary and fiction using choreography as an activating and organizing agency between various media such as image, sound, music, text, voice, bodily movement, and actions. She focuses on speculative history-making, transnational, transfeministe, and inter-generational relations. She creates work and conducts research in collaboration with professional and non-professional performers and dancers, dramaturges, musicians, composers, film artists, and friends and family members.

Since 2001, she has created solos and large-scale performances, performative installations, and films that have been presented in performing arts venues and museums worldwide, including Centre Pompidou, Paris; MoMA, New York City; Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid; MACBA Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona; Serralves Foundation, Porto; Akademie der Künste, Berlin; mumok, Vienna; Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam; Museo Centro Gaiás, Santiago de Compostela; Fondation Cartier, Paris; Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Salzburg; Villa Empain - Boghossian Foundation, Brussels; ING Art Center, Brussels; and KINDL, Berlin. Her solo exhibition Eszter Salamon 1949 (2014) was presented at Jeu de Paume, Paris, as part of Satellite curated by Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez. Her most recent film Sommerspiele (2023) premiered at Akademie der Künste, Berlin, in the frame of the exhibition POWER SPACE VIOLENCE. Planning and Building under National Socialism, and it was screened during Hors Pistes 2024 at Centre Pompidou, Paris.

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