The exhibition Similar Stories is the result of a long process: on the one hand, it draws on the primary, multi-year experience of motherhood, and on the other hand, it uses the tools of visual art to turn the subjective experiences of the narrators into a community issue. During their conversations, Fajgerné Dudás and Horváth Lóczi identified seven concepts that represent the important problems, unspoken fears and concerns, parental roles, the search for compatibility between artistic practice and career, and the characteristics of special “maternal thinking”: without taboos or clichés, in a deeply psychological, self-reflective, and intimate way. The exhibition Similar Stories is itself an experiment: what connections or differences in emphasis result from the treatment of the theme in two radically different visual languages? Following a conscious decision by the two artists, they did not look at each other's work during the creative process, which lasted several months, and the mutual compromise that arose from the creative rules they set for themselves (fixed themes, specific image sizes) became an important aspect of the exhibition's content.

The artist made a conscious decision that they will not inspect the others' work during the several months of creative process, they created a certain system of rules (themes, defined sizes of the paintings) which established a mutual compromise, it became the exhibitions important content aspect. How can creative women who have the profound vocation, belong to the european culture can process the excruciating feeling of constant remorse which is parallel with the mother role? When is that point coming when nothing really matters and how the patriarchally judgemental society takes it? What if they were born as men? What new levels can experienced from fatigue and exhaustion by the woman who is raising a child? Do women have prejudice against themselves in the motherhood community, whatsoever where are the borders of female empathy? How can we deal with the mental and intellectual load coming from a sense of professionalism for example when you are getting ready for an exhibition? How does privacy dissolve and transform when you become a mother? Those questions can be really familiar to all who became a mother, Fajgerné Dudás Andrea and Horváth Lóczi Judit’s micro histories can provide a dissolution mirror to all of us and meanwhile they hand their own experiences, knowledge and deeper feelings, they address to faith, feminine roles, their complex identity.

Noémi Szabó, art historian, curator of the exhibition