The exhibition explores everyday life as a space where power relations are formed, reinforced, but also disrupted. Power is not understood here as a distant political act or an external authority, but as a subtle yet omnipresent force that manifests itself in small decisions. Instead of grand social narratives, the focus shifts to the micropolitics of habit, care, and coexistence – to the ways in which norms, values, and hierarchies permeate the rhythm of the day, the regimes of the body, the allocation of time and attention, and even the very way we inhabit space. It also touches on public events, which are not separate from our lives but directly shape them.
Everyday life, however, is not only a structure that determines our habits and limitations – it is also a site of personal experience. The photographs in the exhibition capture intimate moments of grief, silence, and uncertainty, as well as small celebrations and exceptional moments that emerge precisely from routine. These delicate layers of reality shape our relationship to the world and to one another.
The curatorial selection of student works from the Faculty of Mass Media Communication at the University of St. Cyril and Methodius in Trnava (Studio of Communication in the Medium of Photography, Creative-Experimental Studio, and Applied Photography Studio under the Department of Artistic Communication) frames these questions across a variety of poetics and visual approaches. The photographic image is understood not only as a means of representation but also as an active practice that co-creates social reality – revealing infrastructures, affective bonds, and informal rules that often remain unnoticed in everyday life.
