Sommersemester 2019, BA/MA Visuelle Kommunikation VK_2019
ℬ · An elephant in the dark, 2019
Von Atefeh Javanmardi.
sex, desires, feelings, attractions, ons, flirting, couple, intimacy, marriage, fantasies, break-up, booty call, pleasure, ...
we’re not going to pretend, this is love we’re talking about. not necessarily the one with a big l, nor
necessarily in the singular, but that is what we are going to discuss here.
about thirty people answered a questionnaire on the subject and honoured us with the honour of being as open and honest as possible. we are extremely grateful to them for this, because we are aware of the effort that this may have required. their anonymity is not only preserved for personal purposes, but also to leave representations and identifications open.although collected in the form of a question/answer, it should not, of course, be seen as something definitive on the subject, only and surely varied opinions, perceptions, experiences and feelings. it is the specificity of each person, through a form of collective exchange, a space that is this book, that we must try to transmit here.
this project has no quantitative or comparative purpose, but rather an introspection of the intimacy of people with different horizons, in the broadest sense of the term, that we must look at. the aspiration is to exchange personal and "poetic" views
(to the general definition of building new forms of expression), on intimate relationships and why not remove some masks...
