Skopje, 17 April 2024 (MIA) - The Jadro Cultural Center is set to open 'Unnamed' exhibition with text installations of contemporary fairy tales about Macedonian heroines on Wednesday. The texts were written by female high school students who attended the "Unnamed" creative writing workshop for young people in January, 2024.

"Under the mentorship of 'Duma in summa', an informal culture initiative, composed of comparatists Marija Boshkovska and Ivana Smilevska, and visual artist Darko Aleksovski, 10 female high school students explored fairy tales from around the world, including, memes, activism and alternative Macedonian, women’s history," organizers said.

Attendees will have the opportunity to read modern fairy tales dedicated to partisan Vera Jocić, architect Mimoza Nestorova-Tomić, director Biljana Garvanlieva, "Makedonka" magazine editor Veselinka Malinska and partisan Mara Naceva-Anka.

The text installation dedicated to these Macedonian heroines were visually edited by artist Darko Aleksovski. After the exhibition they will be donted to culture and education institutions, according to the work of each heroine.

"Jocić's text panel will be donated to the Skopje elementary school of the same name, Nestorova-Tomić's installation will be donated to the Museum of North Macedonia, which is also one of the few remaining buildings she constructed, and Garvanlieva's installation will be gifted to the Cinemathique of North Macedonia. Malinska's installation will be donated to the St. Clement of Ohrid National and University Library, while Naceva-Anka's installation will be donated to the Trajko Prokopiev Theater in Kumanovo. A QR-code of each text installation will lead to a full version of the fairy tale, which will also be available online," organizers noted. ssh/ba/

Photo: Jadro Cultural Center