Published: September 5, 2025; Aithor: Julia Sonrisa
Address: 1 Dock 72, Way Brooklyn, NY 11205, United States
Phone: +1 (212) 326-40-22
Web: https://dock72.com/Join us for an exciting evening as we welcome Visiting Artist Fellow Brigitta Váradi to the VALS Visiting Artist Lecture Series at Dock 72 in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
Hosted by our Fine Arts MFA program, VALS is one of several free and open-to-the-public events we offer each year. Follow us on Instagram @prattfineart to see what’s coming up, and we look forward to welcoming you soon!
Brigitta Varádi is a multimedia artist who delves into tradition, craft, and the everyday rituals of working life. She investigates themes of sustainability and cultural heritage through a combination of research, material experimentation and community engagement. Interweaving notions of fine art and craft, labor and heritage, Brigitta focuses the attention on the importance of traditions in an age of mass production and the global economy.
Brigitta examines the disappearing traditions and daily activities of small, secluded communities around the world: her grandmother mopping up her kitchen floor several times a day, the “liberty” tea made by inhabitants of New York State, the marking system of the dwindling community of shepherds in Ireland and the breuccio, a piece of red silk sewn into a sachet to hold coarse salt, shared between women to protect from evil spirits, in rural Italy.
One of Brigitta’s latest project MARKINGS gathers together and explores the different marks used by farmers to identify their sheep in the North West region. With the use of traditional techniques and a system of marks used by shepherds, her works examine the mechanics of remembering and reminding. Creating a dialogue with farmers and place the project also opens on to a broader reflection concerning the signs and forms of identification humans use to identify animals, plants and territories.
Previous VALS artists include: Diana Al-Hadid, Korakrit Arunanondchai, Judith Bernstein, Michael Berryhill, Wafaa Bilal, The Black School, Flaviu Cacoveanu, Pradeep Dalal, Abigail D. Deville, Nicole Eisenman, Florencia Escudero, Rochelle Feinstein, Keltie Ferris, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Scherezade García, Rico Gatson, Jeffrey Gibson, Mark Thomas Gibson, Nancy Grossman, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Edgar Heap of Birds, James Hyde, Laura Kalman, Lotus Kang, Nina Katchadourian, Elektra KB, eri king, Baseera Khan, Savannah Knoop, Leigh Ledare, Jennie Jieun Lee, Ann Lewis, Tau Lewis, Kalup Linzey, Ibrahim Mahama, Park McArthur, Alicia Mersy, Wardell Milan, Ayanah Moor, Lavar Munroe, Narcissister, Rashaad Newsome, Catherine Opie, Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya, Alexis Rockman, Aura Satz, Shazia Sikander, Lorna Simpson, Nyugen E. Smith, Wendy Red Star, Dan Walsh, Hu Xiangqian, and Frank Wang Yefen.
We are grateful to the Robert Lehman Foundation for supporting this series.
Time: 6:00 pm EST
Free!
Detailed information and discussion of the event.