This bachelor's thesis is an observation on issues that concern modern man. Each work is a humorous cry for everything we experience daily: Because when everyday life surpasses imagination, the only logical reaction is irony. They comment on familiar situations: work that exhausts, tourism that squeezes, immigration that uproots, technology that isolates. Through symbolism and metaphors, mechanisms of power, social apathy and institutional failure are revealed – only here they are not dressed up in heavy terms, but with images that pose the question differently: If the rest soup is eaten only on Sunday, how much work is enough? Using sarcasm and exaggeration as a vehicle, the images are transformed into scenes of theatrical irony: doctors in a coma, astronauts who don't have time to leave because the army calls them, citizens who are controlled and others who ignore each other. Humor is used as if it were a tool, to provoke active viewing, uncomfortable thoughts and (ideally) a little embarrassment.
3/10 of my artwork:
Social Issues through Art
Wage Slavery
This artwork depicts a thin man who can only taste a little soup every Sunday because it is the only day he does not work. On the 25th–30th of the month, he gets time off and can eat the whole soup. He is thin because he works more than he rests. The artwork symbolizes wage slavery and the lack of free time in a worker’s life.
Fragile Roof
The artwork depicts a migrant in the Evros region and a person offering him a roof made of wooden sticks. The idea is based on the harsh conditions in which many migrants live in Evros. The shadow on the person’s face shows that he is treated like a “criminal,”
Medical Negligence
The artwork refers to medical negligence. Many times, we trust people in order to get a quick and cheap medical consultation, believing that the examination will be correct. That is why we see a patient whose pulse is being checked in the neck, while the real problem is in the arm, showing a misdiagnosis and the consequences of carelessness.