Muzej

WOMEN'S CORNER
(May 15th - August 1st)
 

The exhibition Women’s Corner implies a partner project of The Museum of Yugoslav History and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade.
 

Authors of the exhibition: Marija Djorgovic (Museum of the History of Yugoslavia), Ana Panic (Museum of the History of Yugoslavia) and Una Popovic (Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade).
 

Exhibition opening: Saturday, May 15th 2010 at 18.00 (within the manifestation Museum Night).
 

The exhibition Women’s Corner has a goal to present visually some of the questions related to the theme of woman in socialism, and through the form “one day in the life of working woman”. The model of everyday life, presented at the exhibition through several segments, social and private obligations during the day, actually punctuates different roles of woman after the Second World War, as well as how these roles were officially, socially presented.

Socialism as a system strived to remove the concept of ruling class and to remove, through principle of general equality, the material, legal and formal inferiority of women. It was considered that a woman should take part in the work equally, that her role is not only to look after the household and children, but that it is a non-static, socially active role, which makes woman available and functional in all the spheres of life, in the field of work, politics, education.

During the Second World War, woman attains a perspective of independence and social-political equality. She becomes a fellow-fighter in the struggle, an equally socially responsible being. However, as early as in the fifties, during a period of stabilization of the country, her socially engaged role “quiets down” and she returns to previously established roles in the reproductive family framework.
 

Exhibition Women’s Corner presents interviews with three women of older generation, from different social classes, professions and roles. Through their life stories, the social time frame and everyday life in Serbia in the mid 20th century are reconstructed, exactly as a confirmation, but also as a contrast to the proclaimed ideal of woman from the documents of the Women’s Antifascist Front (AFZ) and women’s magazines, as active factors that contributed to the forming of social consciousness and educational role.

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Authors thank for the help and support to the following institution and individuals:
Programski arhiv TVB-RTS, Arhiv Filmskih novosti, Arhiv Jugoslavije, Muzej nauke i tehnike, Radio televizija Srbije, Narodna biblioteka Srbije, Kulturni centar Beograd, Bojana Andrić, Mijat Babić, Vesna Došen, Slavica Drobac, Stanislava Erić, Vesna Injac, Bosiljka Kićevac, Miladin Milošević, Daniela Pejović, Mihailo Timotijević, Radoslava Timotijević, Nadežda Tubin Simić, Odeljenje za umetnicku dokumentaciju MSU, Odeljenje muzejskih zbirki i programskih aktivnosti MIJ.