The artists have created a joint critical, but definitely positivist, reflection on the viral phenomena of depicting a sad girl on the Internet by exploring their own position of emotions and bodies. We live in a fairly subtle and ironic world where every concept and even feminism succeeded in capitalizing and becoming consumer goods. In the concept of a pedicure salon, the Sad Girls Collective builds an expanded space of women's solidarity and exchanges of women's experience away from the ears of men, creating a safe space for exchange, while the nails themselves become weapons, not signs of aesthetic beauty or weakness. On the other hand, yet another ubiquitous trend of statement T-shirts was used as a template for creating antimanifest, always subtly packed into a marketable and aesthetically-priced branded consumer goods.

Coauthors (Sad Girls Collective): Martina Granić, Marina Jukić, Nina Bačun, Iva Markovac, Iva Korenčić, Irena Tomašić

The project was realized and supported by the City Office for Education, Culture and Sport of the City of Zagreb in collaboration with Miroslav Kraljević Gallery.