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The parking garages are
usually dull objects that grab no attention. But the ParkiRaj
garage on Trdinova
street with its round
windows is quite
interesting, and not just architecturally.
What is actually going on
behind the windows of this parking garage, built under
otherwise lively
apartment building?! The residents' favorite past time
seems to be
leaning on
windows and watching the passersby; or melancholically
staring in front
of
them, smoking and thinking about life. Or hanging the
laundry, dropping
paper
airplanes, watering flowers, kissing... Some windows
have pulled
curtains,
jalousies, some have lights constantly turned on, and
some apartments
are
empty. Why should we be observing only the neighbors
every day? Let's
stalk the
dwellers of ParkiRaj and inform our friends about
the happenings in as
yet
unknown apartment building.
Kaja
Avberšek is a comic
creator, illustrator, and designer. She is finishing
her
post-graduate studies at Ljubljana's
Academy
of Fine Arts
and Design (ALUO). Her
diploma, titled Zapiski
in zariski z
Azorskih otokov (Notes
and Drawings from Azores Islands),
won her
Prešeren's student award in 2006. Also in 2006, the
Portuguese publisher Texto Editores published
the
work in a book. She
received some other recognition and awards, like
the ALUO special
achievements
acknowledgement and an award for the Slovenski
klasiki v stripu
cover
design on the 4th Biennal of Slovene Visual
Communications. She
collaborated with the Portuguese puppet theatre Lua
Cheia - teatro
para
todos as the author of their visual design.
She also collaborated
with Peter
Kus in the performance Izgubljeni ton (The
Lost Tone)
and the Evfonija
- Pojoči grad (Evfonija - The Singing
Castle)
exhibition.
Kaja is a member
of the Stripburger editorial board, a comic
magazine where she
regularly
publishes her works.
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