Guided tour of the exhibition It’s Okay To Cry
Guided tour of the exhibition It’s Okay To Cry
UGM, Strossmayer street 6
Saturday, 9 December 2023, 11:00
Led by: Barbara Gregov in Lea Vene (Organ Vida), curators of the exhibition
We invite you to a guided tour of It’s Okay To Cry, an exhibition that we organised in collaboration with Organ Vida, Zagreb's biannual international photography festival. It will be led by the exhibition curators Barbara Gregov and Lea Vene on Saturday, on 9th of December 2023, at 11:00. After the guided tour, a portfolio review will be conducted with the registered participants.
One of the eleven participating artists, Lucija Rosc, will be present at the guided tour. Lucija Rosc plays with the concept of “superposition,” a geological term and method used to determine the age of fossils, which follows the rule that younger sedimentary layers are always deposited on older ones. By creating striking visual compositions from seemingly useless or uninteresting everyday objects like the works from the series Superpositions and Roux, old ideas and familiar experiences are overshadowed by new and unexpected meanings.
The exhibition It's Okay To Cry* explores the social dimensions of emotions and presents artworks by eleven artists that address various manifestations of feelings and emotions in contemporary society and affirm new affective perspectives in the fields of photography and contemporary art.
The increasingly prevalent feelings of frustration, anxiety, or dissatisfaction today are the result of the social and political uncertainty and insecurity that characterize the times we live in. We are all, in some way, trying to specify, verbalise, structure, fit into familiar frameworks, connect with previous experiences, or completely rethink this "affective disorientation," as theorist Sianne Ngai describes it. We invent mechanisms and tactics to cope with frustration and trauma, design tools and discourses to organize our free time, exercise, love life, or daily life in general. Some nostalgically idealize childhood or times that seem, from today's perspective, simpler and more authentic. Others escape into nature, explore spirituality or utopias, while others seek meaning in the metaverse.
*The title is taken from the song It's Okay to Cry by SOPHIE.
Guided tour is free of charge with admission.