Resistance, compressed into fractals

This bronze memorial does not narrate the twentieth century with heroic figures. Michal Gabriel's work, unveiled in 2006, uses a three-sided pyramid to hold three historical periods: the First World War era, resistance to Nazism, and resistance to communist totalitarianism. Repeated fractal structures push the basic volume outward and, according to the municipal description, create tension and continuity between those periods. The location is part of the work's argument too: Brno's historical record says the site beside the Palace of Justice was selected after a study partly because the building is associated with trials of opponents of totalitarian regimes. Material, geometry and address all carry the memory together.