Eperjesi, Ágnes: Weekly Menu (Sunday) (1996)

In her artistic activity, Ágnes Eperjesi focuses on researching the technical possibilities of photography. In her view, any kind of light permissive material can be used to enlarge images. That's how the bag of a cheap instant soup, bought in a grocery store, produced in some hidden parts of Asia, becomes a negative to be enlarged, or an enlarged picture of a deep-frozen food's bag or a piece of sugar paper enter the exhibition space. These packaging materials are the sociological-cultural impressions of a given age and geographical area. Her work Weekly Menu is a colour series made with the use of such materials. In this way, these images become part of a weekly menu, inevitable for a careful housewife. However, since women's employment has for today become common, this model of housewives now seems anachronistic. In the cookbooks dedicated to beginner housewives, which have become completely outdated by now, we can find weekly menus that are meant to help the inexperienced urban women who live far away from the older generations. Therefore the work reflects on the division of labour and the ongoing changes in female roles.