This readymade series consists of foods and products symbolizing bare existence, previously stolen in supermarkets. The exhibits are supported by basic information about the theft of individual items: date, time, trading chain, address, and the unexpected theft of one of the products (artefacts) from a museum in which the work was exhibited.
The title of the work, which takes the name of the Croatian national anthem, ironically points to the betrayed expectations of our new state, and to growing problems of corruption and poverty. By being based the commission of felonies, the work questions ideas of morality, false morality and the loss of morality, in the context of Croatian reality.
Milijana Babić (HR)
Recent work by the Croatian artist Milijana Babić is mainly rooted in performative art practice, often developing in the direction of contextually specific long-term actions in public space. The starting point of her work is her own position as a woman and an artist, which she questions in her immediate surroundings.
She holds a BA in fine arts from the Durban Institute of Technology, Republic of South Africa, and an MA from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Ljubljana, Slovenia. She is a long-term collaborator of the City of Women festival in Ljubljana. Between 2007-2014 she worked as an associate at the Academy of Applied Arts in Rijeka. She is a member of the artists association Delta 5 in Rijeka. Her work has been exhibited internationally.
Contact: babicmilijana@gmail.com
