Omara – Mara Oláh

The stormy rains are showing their power. I hope you take this opportunity to get a job, so the bandits won’t be harvesting. If not, then blame yourself, because you’re stupid. Keep on mowing the grass for peanuts and letting yourself get murdered.

Opening: Friday, January 14, 12-6pm
Thursday – Saturday, 12 – 5pm
in collaboration with the Estate of OMARA, Everybody Needs Art and Longtermhandstand, Budapest

OMARA - Mara Oláh (1945–2020) was one of the most influential, internationally acknowledged Hungarian Roma painters. Her art addressed decisive events that determined her own life: she painted scenes from her life and summarized her thoughts and feelings in messages inscribed onto the image surface. The linking of the figurative and the narrative, coupled with the raw, poster candour of her works, resulted in a unique contemporary language that Omara used to unravel the social reality of her descent and womanhood beyond dealing with her own destiny.