Keep smiling

2024

installation with t-shirts and ironing desk, collaboration with XOMEHKO

Cotton T-shirt with a heat-printed indifferent poker face, transformed into a smiley face. The T-shirt is the official merch of the exhibition, a literal visualisation of a forced, fixed smile as a reactive mask to society's request to be positive in any situation. Most of the time a combination of a denial of traumatic situations and wars as sensitive content, a dogmatisation of Eastern European scowl, and the social restraint on negative emotions make us pretend.