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in Technos Dystopium: Embroidery from the Encyclopedia of Diderot, I-II-III-IV Orshi Drozdik Orshi Drozdik has worked for over a decade with the critical analysis of scientific representation of truth and reality. In her deconstructions of the practices of textual and visual modeling of reality in scientific displays from 18th and 19th century museums and books, she employs postmodern feminist strategies. In the 1980s, under the overall title Adventure in Technos Dystopium Drozdik exhibited several installations with different subtitles. "I mixed different mediums-sandblasted glass, porcelain, glass, rubber, black and white photographs, embroidery, theoretical text, love letters, found and sculpted objects. The different installations addressed distinct issues in physical and medical sciences." The silk embroidery in the piece Embroidery from the Encyclopedia of Diderot, I-II-III-IV compliments and contrasts in an intriguing way the digital works displayed in the show, recapitulating the vitality of handmade objects. |
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Raised and educated in Hungary, Drozdik divides her time between New York and Budapest. Drozdik started to work with scientific representations of nature and the human body in the 1980s. Her photo-based work and installation series have been exhibited internationally and received critical reviews all over the world. In the 1990s, she developed Manufacturing the Self, a series exploring consciousness of self in different cultural, racial, gender, historical, and geographical situations. |