What will our world be like without emotions, and will anyone even miss them?
This question, provoked by the concern that life in current circumstances of constant digital connectivity and instant “likes” and emoticons” is heading into a state where emotions are increasingly losing their role and are retreating into cliches, has motivated the visual artist and author Eva Petrič to create ”@apple girl story 2 ; to be a shadow or a puppet…”.
The multilayered story and its book is a hybrid by its content as well as its form. It is a hybrid of a literary story, switching between a fairytale and a contemporary email dairy, and the visual dictionary of emotions among which many are on the brink of extinction. The text itself is a hybrid mitigating between images and sentences, spread out over paper of
different colors in ways where sentences form visual images. By depicting figures in their material forms of bodies as well as in their immaterial forms as shadows, the book enables viewers various ways of perception and possibilities of creating one’s own stories.
Eva Petrič is a transmedia artist, known for her creative use of photography, interweaving
with other media, exploring with it the language of shadows, decoding our existence on
ephemeral levels. Her motivation to expose the multidimensional architecture of space,
defined by atmosphere, lead her to apply a trans medial approach in her art.
Author: Eva Petrič
Foreword: Olga Butinar Čeh
23 cm x 23 cm
358 pages, hardcover