Vandals

fiber-glass cement
290 cm
2008

Quite early after an attack on the group of sculptures „Meeting between Pixels“ Iva Sedláková (the head of the Department of Culture of the town Ceske Budejovice) and I agreed on a new installation. With a certain satiric exaggeration, I decided to place sculptures of vandals on the Lannova street. The initial idea to paraphrase the incident really intrigued me but I started to question the idea of making a „memorial“ to vandals later on. Vandals fight for their identity in their own strange way, they want to be seen whether one before another or the world. In the end, I decided to make a „memorial“ for them anyway to make their visibility and existence apparent and to make them as much visible as possible. Cement vandals create a space for self-expression and expression of emotions, it’s possible to spray, draw and scribble on them. I believe that this form of creative expression can substitute the destructive form. Cement vandals, a little bit flat and empty people, can become a collective work of everyone and self-fulfillment on their bodies might help to fill in the emptiness and superficiality.

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