Series - FotoSlovo 2026 - Category « Conceptual photography »

Asylum proposes a tragicomic staging of mental life, confronting it with the pressures of social performance and the shifting masks of sanity. This photographic project moves beyond surface appearances to reveal the repressed dimensions of human psyche, exposing its most irrational and unfiltered contents through imagery.

Though often associated with terror, the unconscious, home to impulse, unacknowledged suffering, and unruly drives, is continuously shaped and disciplined by social norms. As profoundly social beings, humans exist in tension between instinct and reason, suspended between the animal and the idealized self. In this sense, social life becomes a stage where narratives unfold as tragedy, drama, and comedy, reflecting an ongoing struggle: to contain the irrational while preserving the illusion of order.