Zenta Dzividzinska’s works in online version of exhibition “Communism Through the Lens”

Zenta Dzividzinska’s photographs are included in the exhibition “Communism Through the Lens: Everyday Life Captured by Women Photographers in the Dodge Collection” at the Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJ, USA, from April 29 to October 17, 2021.

The exhibition is curated by Maria Garth, the Graduate Curatorial Assistant (Dodge Fellow).

The virtual presentation of the exhibition, alongside its brochure and recordings of related roundtable talks and lectures, is available here on the Zimmerli Art Museum website.

Find Zenta Dzividzinska’s works in the exhibition section “Gender and the Body.”

According to the museum’s information, “Spanning almost the entirety of the Soviet Union’s history from the 1920s through the 1990s, this exhibition of rarely-seen images explores themes of political art, documentary photography, and gender, offering a historical look at how women photographers interpreted life in the communist state.

[. . .] Despite the Soviet Union’s rhetoric of gender equality, women of both generations from all over the Soviet Union shared a range of personal and professional challenges in advancing their careers as photographers.

Bringing together over one hundred and thirty works from the Zimmerli’s Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection of Nonconformist Art from the Soviet Union, including photography books and journals, the majority of which are displayed for the first time, this is the first exhibition at the Zimmerli devoted to photography by women from the Soviet Union. It also presents a survey of approaches to photography to highlight for the first time the central role played by women in redefining photography’s social reach – and expressivity – as perhaps the quintessential modernist medium.”

Learn more about the exhibition and related events here, on its dedicated page on Artdays.net