Zrips Institute in collaboration with photographer blaze S. Kobal
Exhibition opening: Tuesday, 4. March, at 11.30. The opening will be accompanied by a short cultural program in the Red Hall of the Ljubljana City Hall.
Zrips Institute in cooperation with Blaise S. Kobal prepared an exhibition of portraits of people with intellectual disabilities . The project aims to bring people with intellectual disabilities closer to the general public, as they are still stigmatized and ignored. The purpose of the exhibition is to show in an unobtrusive way the difference and beauty that shines in each of us regardless of the exterior or mental abilities.
In the zrips Institute, we felt that in addition to personal assistance, our mission is also to destigmatize people with disabilities, especially people with intellectual disabilities. We are aware that despite the enormous progress and positive solutions currently available to them, people with disabilities are often still severely stigmatized. People who have no contact with people with disabilities do not know their thinking, cordiality, sincerity. They often feel uncomfortable around them, look at them sideways or turn away, sometimes they are even afraid of them. This is mainly due to the fact that they almost certainly never had real, genuine contacts with them. Only then can you connect with them, feel them and accept them.
People with intellectual disabilities are best described by beautiful smiles. Positivity, authenticity and sincerity flow from them.
Zavod ZRIPS v sodelovanju s fotografom Blažem S. Kobalom
Odprtje razstave: v torek, 4. marec, ob 11.30. Odprtje bo pospremil kratki kulturni program v Rdeči dvorani ljubljanske Mestne hiše.
Zavod ZRIPS je v sodelovanju z Blažem S. Kobalom pripravil razstavo portretov oseb z motnjo v duševnem razvoju . S projektom želimo širši javnosti približati osebe z motnjo v duševnem razvoju, saj so te še vedno stigmatizirane, prezrte. Namen razstave je na nevsiljiv način prikazati drugačnost in lepoto, ki sije v vsakem izmed nas ne glede na zunanjost ali mentalne sposobnosti.
V zavodu ZRIPS smo začutili, da je poleg osebne asistence naše poslanstvo tudi destigmatizacija invalidov, še posebej oseb z motnjo v duševnem razvoju. Zavedamo se, da so invalidi kljub ogromnim napredkom in pozitivnim rešitvam, ki so jim trenutno na voljo, pogosto še vedno močno stigmatizirani. Ljudje, ki nimajo stiki z invalidi, ne poznajo njihovega razmišljanja, prisrčnosti, iskrenosti. Ob njih se velikokrat počutijo neprijetno, gledajo jih postrani ali se obrnejo proč, včasih se jih celo bojijo. To je predvsem posledica tega, da z njimi skoraj zagotovo nikoli niso imeli pravih, pristnih stikov. Šele takrat se namreč lahko z njimi povežeš, jih začutiš in sprejmeš.
Osebe z motnjo v duševnem razvoju najlepše opišejo prav čudoviti nasmehi. Iz njih vejejo pozitivnost, pristnost in iskrenost.