The first part of the Bachelor thesis comprises the theoretical background of emotional intimacy in connection with feelings of anxiety emerging when an individual self-discloses or trusts excessively in another person. The focus is on the psychological perspective of experiencing fear, risk and vulnerability in intimate relationships and on my own interpretation of emotions arising from the anxious world of intimacy. Afterwards, I do a case study of referential material of artists Louise Bourgeois, Eva Hesse, Marina Abramović and Ulaya, Lucio Fontana and Senga Nengudi whose works evoked in me particular feelings and helped me form a practical part of the thesis.
In the second part I move on to a practical realization, where through sketches and maquettes made in various art media I am exploring approaches for materializing anxiety related to intimate relationships, which will be used in my artwork. Of utmost importance is finding a limit to which I could self-disclose, without losing myself in the process. In the final work the anxious tension is represented by two diverging glass surfaces with which I identify. A fully stretched fabric is holding the glass panels together and preventing them from falling down and breaking - both in physical and spiritual sense.
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