Exhibition · 2024

I Am the Woman

Bewusst Sein Im Fokus, Vienna

In my own words

No single definition of womanhood survived this project, thank goodness. It became a collective mosaic — many women, many contradictions, no conclusion offered.

It was my first properly Viennese project, made with the community that took me in here. In hindsight it was also a quiet rehearsal for everything that came after: Femme Fatale, and eventually EUFÓRIA. You do not always know at the time which piece is the doorway.

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Works from the exhibition

Black and white portrait of a woman, a strand of hair falling across her face.
A woman in a lace dress stands in an old wooden doorway marked GAS.
A woman in a white summer dress sits on a bench outdoors, chin on her hand.
A woman leans on a suitcase under red and violet light.
A woman in a blue dress lies back in a field of poppies and wild grass.
A woman in a dark suit sits in an armchair in an elegant room.
A smiling woman in a pale pink suit stands against a plain white wall.
Black and white: a woman turns her face away from the light, shoulders bare.
A woman with her hand in her hair stands against a red painted wall.
Black and white: a woman kneels among tall reeds.
A woman in red raises her arms in front of a grand opera house facade.
A woman in a red suit stands beside a dark car among trees.
A soft-focus study of a hand resting on a shoulder.
A woman spins in a sunflower-printed skirt on a city street.
Black and white: a woman lies with her head on her arm, eyes closed.
A woman sits on a windowsill in jeans, warm light coming in behind her.
Black and white: a woman sits with her arms around her knees in a tulle skirt.
A woman in a white blazer stands indoors and looks into the lens.
A bunch of tulips rests in a woman's lap as she sits in jeans in the grass.
Black and white: a woman lies back with her eyes closed, light across her face.
Two women in Hungarian folk dress stand smiling in a sunflower field.
Black and white: a woman throws water into the air with both hands, standing waist-deep.
Two women in a green-lit interior, one raising a glass.
Black and white: a smiling woman sits in a bathtub, one foot toward the lens.
Two women embrace by a bright window in warm golden light.

© Norbert Bánhalmi / BANHALMI. All rights reserved. Images from the BANHALMI archive, 1999–2026.

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