"Invisible operates in the tradition of 1970s feminist performance art while addressing the persistent inequalities of contemporary domestic labor. Without dialogue or dramatics, Pátkai's body becomes a living sculpture of the "mental load" that invisible weight of planning, organizing, and caring that disproportionately falls on women. The performance's deliberate repetition mirrors the endless cycle of household maintenance, while its public setting forces a confrontation with society's willingness to witness burden without offering relief. This is not a film about spectacular gestures but about the radical potential of making the invisible visible.

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In a quietly radical act of feminist performance art, Vienna-based artist Rozina Pátkai transforms an ordinary suburban zebra crossing into a stage for the unseen labor of domestic life. Carrying an impossible accumulation of household objects: a drying rack, shopping trolley, mattress, pushchair, child's bicycle, she repeatedly attempts to cross the street, stumbling under the weight of these everyday burdens.

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Shot with a static camera that observes rather than intrudes, the film captures an unannounced public performance where passing drivers and pedestrians become unwitting participants in a social experiment about visibility, care, and collective indifference. As Pátkai drops and regathers her load, traffic slows but rarely stops. Help comes only once: from another woman, in a moment that speaks volumes about solidarity and its limits.

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Through its unflinching documentation of one woman's struggle with the physical manifestation of emotional and domestic labor, Invisible creates a powerful mirror for audiences to examine their own complicity in systems of care and neglect."

 

(Salterton Arts Review: The Unbearable Weight of Being: Rozina Pátkai’s Invisible LINK)