Paper Memorial Plaque

2011

photography, action in public space

On the occasion of the Anti-fascist Resistance Day on June 22, I performed an action to repair a damaged anti-fascist plaque in Zagreb. I wanted to draw attention to the fact that most of the demolished anti-fascist monuments had never been restored. To this day, no one has been held accountable for more than 3,000 damaged, demolished, or removed anti-fascist monuments, and the current political leadership has not taken a clear stance towards anti-fascist heritage and has no strategy for reconstruction. With this action, I wanted to warn the public about the need for systematic care for our monumental heritage and stress the importance of affirming humanistic ideas of anti-fascism. This act of fixing the paper plaque onto the damaged plaque inspired the residents of the building in Primorska ulica in Zagreb to actually replace the broken plaque later.