CAFE ARTISTIQUEE

event overview

Café Artistique with Penny Monogiou “Thinking Out of the Box: Terror and Art,” In this new episode of Café Artistique, hosting Penny Monogiou to speak on “Thinking Out of the Box: Terror and Art,” offers our students and the audience, a unique and focused learning experience that directly connects artistic practice with complex contemporary realities. Through her body of work, Monogiou demonstrates how emotionally charged themes such as fear, power, distortion, and vulnerability can be transformed into a coherent visual language. By analyzing her artistic process in relation to the theme of terror, students will gain concrete insight into how difficult and sensitive subjects can be approached with conceptual clarity rather than sensationalism. During this session, students and all the audience will not only observe finished artworks, but also engage with the thinking behind them. Understanding why certain aesthetic decisions are made, how symbolism is constructed, and how emotional intensity is balanced with artistic control will strengthen their own ability to develop deeper and more intentional creative concepts. This edition of Café Artistique will challenge students to reconsider the boundaries of comfort in their own work. Seeing how an artist confronts unsettling themes encourages them to move beyond safe design solutions and to explore more courageous, research-driven, and socially aware approaches. It will push them to ask stronger conceptual questions and to justify their creative choices more rigorously. Additionally, discussing terror as a broader psychological and societal condition rather than only as political violence helps students expand their interpretative frameworks. This directly enhances their ability to think critically, contextualize their projects, and connect creative production with cultural discourse. In this specific context, the presence of Penny Monogiou becomes an active learning moment. It provides our students with a real example of how art can engage with tension and complexity without losing aesthetic strength. This experience supports their development as thoughtful, conceptually grounded, and professionally mature creatives within the Faculty of Creative Industries.