KSENJA ČERČE / Who’s Afraid of Pink Colour?

Ksenia Čerča’s book Who’s Afraid of Pink Colour? / Kdo se boji roza barve? addresses a painterly reflection on the position of painting in the current situation. The fact is that the existence of painting, including its own negation, has been constituted in various forms in the past and that today, in the post-digital and post-internet situation, painting is being tested not only in its elasticity, but above all in the mechanisms and potentials of its absorptive transgression.
The text highlights elements such as hybridity, translucency, sonicity, toxicity, iridescence and blindness, which refer to different orchestrations of emancipation and manifestation in the works, and which agitate as an infectious territory.
Vilém Flusser says that the strength of European culture is precisely based on the opposition between image and language. Especially today, when the mass/communicative character of visual image-making is so dominant that it transcends language, it is perhaps painting that possesses a relevant voice in relation to the format through which images communicate.

Editor of the catalogue: Primož Premzl
Text: Ksenija Čerče
Translation: Jezikovna zadruga Soglasnik, Ksenija Vidic, Nastja Majerič, Ksenija Čerče
Proofreading: Jezikovna zadruga Soglasnik, Ksenija Vidic
Photographs: Damjan Švarc, Arne Brejc, and Ksenija Čerče
Graphic design: Rafaela Dražić
Year: 2024
Published by: UL ALUO, Ksenija Čerče, and UGM (The publication is the result of a project funded under the Institutional Pillar of Funding Activities of the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, University of Ljubljana).
ISBN: 978-961-297-508-1
COBISS.SI-ID 220030979
Binding: Hardcover
Number of pages: 103 pages
Print run: 300
Price: 40 €