Dorottya Vékony got her MA in Photography in 2014 and is currently a student at the Doctoral School of the Moholy-Nagy University of Arts and Design.
In recent years, she has been researching how the boundaries of the social body and biological body within biopolitical discourse have changed over the course of the 20th century and what meaning they have today. She has been dealing with fertility and reproductive rights for several years. Her attention is directed toward situations where there is some kind of hindrance in this regard, where fertility turns into ‘barrenness,’ where the event of birthing and birth cannot take place. The focus of her interest is on how the women she meets deal with these (crisis) situations and create new, supportive communities determined by empathy and acceptance.
Along these concepts, and through her own artistic practice, she explores how women’s bodies and behaviors, reproductive normativities, and pathologies are shaped, regulated, and controlled by different technologies and social rites.