I am exploring emotional intimacy in connection with feelings of anxiety emerging when I
self-disclose and trust excessively in another person. The focus is on the
psychological perspective of
experiencing fear, risk and vulnerability in ntimate relationships and on
my own interpretation of emotions arising
from the anxious world of intimacy. Of
utmost importance is finding a limit to which I could self-disclose, without
losing myself in the process.
In the final work the anxious tension is represented by two diverging
glass surfaces with which I identify. A fully stretched fabric is holding the
glass panels together and preventing them from falling down and breaking - both
in physical and spiritual sense.
The diploma artwork was awarded with the Prešeren
prize for students of Academy of The Academy of Fine Arts and Design of the
University of Ljubljana (2020). It was exhibited in the European Glass context
2021 (EGC2021) at the Bornholms Center for Kunsthåndværk in Denmark. It was
also shown in a Slovenian annual exhibition May Salon ZDSLU 2022 (MS'22) BLUE
LINE: From the Renaissance to the New Media organized by The Slovenian Association
of Fine Arts Societies in Maribor and in the National Museum of Slovenia as
part of the conference Along the Glass Trail. The work was executed
under the mentorship of prof. Tanja Pak. (Photo Credits: Miha Benedičič)
