| The PM Galerie
is located in the centre of Zagreb in the "Square for the Victims
of Fascism". In the 1990's, under Tudjman's Nationalist Right
government, the name of the square was changed to the "Square
for Heroes", then once Tudjman died and lost power, back again
to the "Square for the Victims of Fascism". On the anniversary
of Tudjman's death, many fascists gather with candles to protest the
name of the square. |
| In contrast to
the now familiar visual presence of big international companies in
European city centres, we were struck by the persistence of so many
local Croatian companies and factories which had existed from the
years before the break up of Yugoslavia, many of which use only a
simple graphic representation of the first letter of the name of the
company as their logo. Despite the strong presence of local logos
in the city centre, we soon found out that many of these companies
were struggling to compete in the globalsed economy and facing closure
or bankruptcy. |
| In reference
to both the above mentioned contestation of the naming of the square
and also the possibility of maintaining lines of separation between
a fixed local economy and a fluid global economy, we reproduced, cut
out and painted enough letters, taken from different local logos,
to
spell the banal question/statement 'where do we end and they begin?'
that questioned the possibility of maintaining separations of global
and local, in Croatian and stuck them between each column around the
outside of the building. The same text was painted in
English, using different logos on the walls of the inner circular
space. |
| Special thanks
to Rada & Vanja for all their help in realising this project.
Thanks also to Zoran Pavelic, Frane Rogic, Marijan Crtalic, Dario
Kohn for lending us their painting skills and Zdravko Mijatovic: the
man with the crane. |
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