Art shock in Ljubljana: Police cause excitement with doll!

Art shock in Ljubljana: Police cause excitement with doll!

Ljubljana, Slowenien - in Ljubljana, Slovenia, an exceptional incident caused an excitement when the police were called to an emergency on December 17, 2024. A passerby had noticed a person in a telephone booth in the Špica district who seemed suspicious to him. The authorities hurried to help and did not discover a helpless woman behind the matt glass door, but a lifeless doll in an offensive pose. The police quickly realized that it was a joke and disposed of the doll immediately, as fireworld.at reported.

The shock for the artist Lana Hasić came the next morning when she no longer found her sculpture, the part of an exhibition of the "Young Dragons and Arts Institute". Hasić had designed the doll, which is urinated, as a provocation for discussion about public perceptions of gender roles. "It should be shown that men can urinate outdoors without disturbing someone while women are often criticized for it," said the artist. The police regretted the incident and called it a misunderstanding. Hasić, however, reacted humorously and praised the emergency services that they acted in the faith of freed from an emergency, as in the report of Policija.si found.

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The incident has led to the topic of gender perception and the infrastructure conditions in Ljubljana now being discussed wider. Hasić's work of art should indicate the insufficient number of public toilets in the city, and the unexpected attention that it now receives is treated lively in the media and society. Although the doll was disposed of unjustified, the incident has triggered an important discourse that goes far beyond the borders of art.