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  Antimonument |

This object was realized in Trnava in 2007; in this way I responded to the monument installed in the city center. The monument was dedicated to the communism victims and it looked like a cake with a wreath and candles. I covered it with a copy of a building panel from a block of flats which I made in 1:1 scale. It was a symbolic shift of outskirts to the city center. I can see the panel that I chose for covering the monument from the window of my block of flats and I chose it because there were the most drawings on it. This abstract drawing was created by workers who fixed the cracked panel walls of the house with a white sealant. I made a copy of the panel from outer and inner side and leaned it against the monument. Through this gesture I pointed out that the real victims of communism are living in these blocks of flats. And 17 years after the Velvet Revolution the city of Trnava created other victims; this time I do not mean people who have to live in poor architecture, these are victims of the newly made object of art that is silly with its ideological reference to the nineteenth century through hymnal texts on plates fitted to the sides of the monument and the crack-opened cube with the chain ant the wreath.