This short, first-person essay describes and briefly evaluates the life and work of the Russian–Hungarian trans-identified artist El Kazovsky (1948–2008). It principally focuses the author’s viewing of ‘The Survivor’s Shadow: The Life and Work of El Kazovsky’ – a massive, 19-room retrospective exhibition at the Hungarian National Gallery in 2015–2016. The author explores the paradox of El Kazovsky’s visibility as a nationally celebrated artist in a moment of extreme state-sanctioned queer-phobia, and the illegibility of his transness. It ends by suggesting that the practice of ‘surviving in shadow’ is increasingly necessary given the continued worldwide drift toward reactionary ethno-nationalist politics that are hostile to trans lives.

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在未知/可见的阴影下生存：论 El Kazovsky 的悖论可见性/可见性

这篇简短的第一人称文章描述并简要评估了俄罗斯-匈牙利跨身份艺术家 El Kazovsky（1948-2008）的生活和工作。它主要关注作者对“幸存者的影子：埃尔卡佐夫斯基的生活和工作”的看法——2015 年至 2016 年在匈牙利国家美术馆举办的大型 19 个房间回顾展。作者探讨了 El Kazovsky 在国家认可的极端酷儿恐惧症时刻作为全国著名艺术家的知名度的悖论，以及他的跨性别难以辨认。文章最后指出，鉴于世界范围内持续向敌视跨性别者的反动民族主义政治倾向，“在阴影中生存”的做法越来越必要。