In 2020, Anetta Mona Chisa and Lucia Tkáčová developed a site-specific sculptural installation in the city of Chemnitz, Germany, associated with its most iconic landmark—the Karl Marx Monument. At 7.1 metres in height and, together with its stand, forty tonnes in weight, it is the largest sculpture of Marx’s head in the world. Instead of Marx’s head, the artists transformed one of the revolutionary thinker’s life-sustaining organs, his gut, into a monument, and they did so on a corresponding scale of one to twenty-four. By doing so they literally turned the Karl Marx Monument upside down and inside out, and, at the same time, questioned the widespread belief in the head as the seat of the mind/reason, as well as the patriarchal dictate of logic, rationality, and cerebralism.
Anetta Mona Chisa and Lucia Tkáčová employ a variety of media, including video, drawing, and sculpture. Their works often examine gender relations and the relics of a socialist past in a capitalist world. They make use of fragmentation, discontinuity, and dialectical oppositions to stage conflicting and humorous situations. At the heart of their practice lies an impetus both deconstructive and reconstructive, enabling diverse possibilities of how old things may coexist in new ways.