No. of pages: 103

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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.

The scientific monograph is partly co-financed by the Institutional Pillar of funding of the Academy of Fine Arts and Design of the University of Ljubljana.