During a six-month residence in Šmartno, a small village in the Slovenian Goriška, an intensive artistic-ethnographic research project in collaboration with cultural anthropologist Markus Waitschacher took place. The project focused on critically analysing the representation of a specific region and its culture. It also asked to what extent objects can be used as vehicles for telling stories.

The medieval village of Šmartno is one of the main tourist attractions in the Brda region and is inundated with visitors—particularly on weekends and during the summer months.

The exhibition „The Šmartno Subject“ responds to this and other socio-cultural phenomena by re-enacting them in a museum exhibition made up of found objects, captured moments and fragments of memory. The curated materials were presented in slideshows and additionally displayed across several cabinets within a dimly lit gallery. A museum guide was also produced in the format of a fold-up leaflet, which discussed the exhibits in highly subjective terms.