What can one say when faced with the terrors of war. For an artist from Croatia it is hard "not to become evil oneself when coming face to face with evil" (Martinis). Being neutral in a national sense but taking sides in a human sense have made Dalibor Martinis register the cruelty in its most anonymous form. Names from all parts of Ex- Yugoslavia, engraved in Roman letters, are being registered electronically in books which are placed on small tables, illuminated by lamps. A clerical situation with a kafka-like atmosphere of bureaucracy recalling at the same time the rows of graveyards.
Martinis has been working with projections on tables for some time now: "Dinner for Two" (VideoFest '89) or the electronic version of the Last Supper entitled "Supper At Last" (1992).
Fie used to distort the mise-en- scene by Inserting playful elements. Today, the most minimal and radical approach is asked for. Nothing but names. The work anticipates the time in which all crimes will be accounted for and the ongoing spiral of violence will have come to a stop.
6 LCD-projectors, 6 video channels, 6 tables, 6 register books,
6 chairs