Layer Café
Students: Žana Baraga, Čarna Berk, Manca Bucaj, Ema Cvek, Martina Čerin, Zoja Nina Garafol, Zoja Gloria Hernaus, Luka Habič, Lana Hribar, Lana Hudoklin, Lucia Karo Banko, Oleksandra Lutsik, Nina Mašera Lisjak, Sara Mehić, Manu Nonković, Flora Omerčević, Izabela Stropnik, Vita Šobar, Matej Šuštar, Tjaša Tomažin, Ula Tominec
Mentors: Veronika Vesel Potočnik, Meta Šolar, Kaja Urh (SI)
High School for Design and Photography Ljubljana
Emotions in themselves are neither positive nor negative. Emotions just are. The society we live in, however, managed to indoctrinate us, through continuous education, the concept of separating them into one and the other – by limiting certain ones, and to some extent, even by denying them. And such repressed emotions speak about the oversaturation of an individual’s inner world. Unexpressed and unprocessed aspects resonate in ongoing emotionally demanding relationships and situations, and above all in the emotional pain we experience when such a situation occurs. With the modest instruction that the collages should follow a main theme Beneath the Surface, mature testimonies of students who understand art as an imaginative expression of emotions were created. In order to get an idea of who we are and what duration means in our life, we have to connect the individual stimuli, thoughts and reflections that are currently being shown to us in some way. Collages, unconsciously focused mainly on the description of “negative” emotions, through well-thought-out compositions that, with their character, strengthen or calm the tension of the story being told, bear witness to the fact that art and creativity help regulate thoughts and emotions. They allow them to materialise on the surface and ease the tension.
- Kaja Urh
