From the series of events dedicated to contemporary women and human rights in the context of celebrating a 65 de ani de la aderarea României la UNESCO, Romanian National Commission for UNESCO (CNR UNESCO) prepared several specific actions, cooperating with powerful voices in science, culture and art.
These actions include the online exhibition (8-10 December 2021) ZERO VIOLENCE – Woman Today, initiated by the Alumnus Club, in partnership with CNR UNESCO.
“Artist Carmen Emanuela POPA proposes an idealistic urge with references to the eradication of violence of any kind, through a conceptual approach with interdisciplinary means in fashion design and post-modernist aesthetic values.
Expressive and exciting topic in terms of defending moral identity, acquires manifest value in the artist's work, being generically a military against violence of any kind. Society becomes sensitive to the urges of visual symbolism, with a very good receptivity both among the victims but also of those who commit the abuse.
The invasive spectrum of negative actions is vast and complex, thus the fragile mechanisms of the human being can be easily depreciated, especially in the absence of experience documenting social dangers, the abbreviated characters of many fellows who are let loose, using psychological and behavioral weapons, thus believing that they have access to an authority that ultimately allows them to be pre-validated in their professional actions as well as in terms of their aesthetic qualities;, self-assessment extrapolând narcissismul.
ZERO VIOLENCE is an imperative slogan that must be implemented in the collective consciousness so that today's society can see the benefits and the creation of a lifestyle in harmony with the derivatives of love., compassion and increased respect for the other, even if it requires mental effort, affective or simply cognitive, but which can provide an extensive area of comfort in everyday life in a context of reciprocity and which can be a permanent start-up for building a better and more prosperous world in terms of welfare resources.”
Carmen Emanuela Popa is a PhD student in Visual Arts / Fashion Design at the National University of Arts in Bucharest, is a graduate of the Faculty of Decorative Arts and Design of the same university and a Master's program - Fashion and Costume Strategies / UNArte Bucharest. In 2018 he is a fellow (6 months) at the IUAV University in Venice, Italy. Participates in a number of international events such as MB Fashion Week Russia and London Fashion Week. He is a member of the Romanian Union of Visual Artists and his works with a strong visual impact have appeared in publications such as Huffington, China Daily, RFI, etc. and in the UK press, Russia, Greece, China, Franta, Spain and Romania.
