Judit Kele

The television footage was shot in 1984 in Judit Kele’s (1944) home, when she had been living as an art object in Paris for four years. In 1980, after divorcing her Hungarian husband, she married the Frenchman who offered the highest price for the “art object” she was auctioning.

Judit Kele’s (1944) photomontage was originally made for a competition entitled Textiles without Textiles (1979), but was not included in the exhibition.

Judit Kele first studied textile art, then set- and costume-design. In 1979 she decided to take a radical step and declared her own self to be a piece of art. She continued consistently along this path through the mid-1980s.