Sculpture, Movement, Impulse

1998, Museum of Contemporary History. A sculptural installation and action, including several workshops and a teaching process carried out in public.

In a museum that until 1990 was called the Museum of the Revolution, the installation engaged with the design of the space itself, and above all with the museum's function: its depots hold the most varied objects and documents, mostly from the First and Second World Wars. Casts of grenades, bombs and other weapons were made in clay, and in their outward form recalled amphorae. These "models" created a link with vessels throughout human history, and served as a reminder of the function of vessels made only in order to be broken, and to kill.

Alongside these "amphorae" were wooden moulds into which, during the workshops and the public teaching process, we cast small wax sculptures of "birth". In one of the rooms stood chests filled with grain, hiding sculpture-vessels that visitors could open and examine, and some of which they could take away with them. One of the chests had been found in the former barracks at Metelkova, and contained letters written by people from various camps during the Second World War.