Jože Šubic has since his first exhibition with Generacija 82 up to the present day walked a path from postmodern painter to socially aware creator of art interventions in public areas. This site-specific installation, namely a work that appeals to the features of the space in which it is located, will be placed in Maribor’s Žiče manor on Lent near the Drava River, which is today degraded and abandoned. The complex history of the building dates back to the middle Ages. It was owned by the Carthusian monastery of Žice until the end of the 14th century, they transformed it into a military post at the end of the 19th century and then into military court and military prison. At one time there was a brothel located nearby with women from the oldest trade in the world. All this is told by Šubič’s installation. Empty house niches holding glass containers filled with water from the Drava River will become like swimming pools or aquariums for women made of clay and men’s heads with open mouths. They will depict the meaning of syntagma “who holds water here” or the truth and obligations which are behind our claims. This has specific value in the context relating to the history of Žiče manor. In the institutions of power, exclusion and sexuality, which affected the manor and its surroundings, the consequences of what one says may be pivotal.
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