Peak

In 2021, eight (women) artists blew up a replica of the Aljaž Tower in the Gabrovec quarry in collaboration with a certified blasting contractor. The explosion was a response to the increasingly nationalistic and conservative social climate in Slovenia. In a subversive move, the artists staged a fake terrorist action to question the current social situation.

Peak is a video performance on the meaning of a cultural heritage monument at a moment when it is being violently erased. It is an iconoclastic gesture, which is, by definition, the result of a revolt – most often against religious, political, or racial injustices. It breaks with canonical thinking, while the destruction of a symbol can re-establish that very symbol in a different context.

“At a time when society is becoming increasingly patriarchal and closed off, a strong artistic gesture is a necessity” (Eight artists)