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AN ARTIST – A VICTIM OR A PROVOCATEUR?

Slaven Tolj: Srđ je naš (Srđ is Ours), Galerija P74, Ljubljana, June 2 – 29, 2012.

By: Žana Vukičević

The fight against corruption, the dissatisfaction with the processes of privatization, the burgeoning of capitalism, as well as the resistance against drastic social stratification as their direct and inevitable consequence are commonplace in a modern democratic society. The phenomena caused by the existence of such negative factors are present and appear almost on a daily basis in the form of public protests, demonstrations, petitions, and similar kinds of civil actions. Nonetheless, almost as a rule, all attempts at rebellion of this kind take place on the principle of the unbalance of forces between the people wanting change and thus standing up together and the rigid structures comprising of financial and political power figures whose influence in decision-making by far surpasses the local context of a certain problem.

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