Januško Klaudia’s second solo exhibition, Served Right, opens at the acb Bak Imre Space. It expands on her earlier work, which critically examined representations of women shaped by the male gaze, situating these inquiries within a broader theoretical and visual framework.
The new paintings and installation elements take as their thematic starting points, on the one hand, the examination of everyday inequalities interpreted through radical feminism, and on the other, the gendered relations of digital spaces and technologies reconsidered from a cyberfeminist perspective, as well as visual references inspired by neomedievalism, which mobilize a stylized imagery of the Middle Ages. Rather than being organized into separate thematic units, the exhibition unfolds through interwoven and continuously rearticulating layers of thought, where past and present, physical and virtual spaces, as well as personal and collective experiences enter into dynamic relationships with one another. The title Served Right itself encapsulates this multilayered structure: it simultaneously refers to an act of justice or retribution, as well as to historically gendered roles of care and service traditionally associated with women.