The work fact ž was designed for the front elevation of one of Zagreb high schools in Križanićeva ulica, as an intervention in public space. It was conceived in early 2015 as part of the two-year project On empathy.
On a black sheet of Perspex Amela Frankl printed what she was thinking about. She had the need publicly, through an intimate statement, to speak out about a historical fact that nobody from the previous or current educational system, officially of course, ever mentioned. Convinced that we have the right and the duty to know the facts, however awkward they might be, and to speak out about them for everyone to find it easier, she wanted to put the sheet of Perspex on the wall of the educational institution that during World War II was a gathering place for deportation to the concentration camps. But Frankl did not get the permission of the school's director. One of the reasons adduced was that “the facade of a high school is not a place for someone to write out his or her private things.” She totally understood the director’s manner of thinking, but one has to know to what extent the artist is really speaking about private matters, and to what extent it concerns the community.
In the end, fact ž was unfinished. Amela Frankl did not insist on her viewpoint or think up some way to get past the passivity, negligence and irresponsibility of the administrative structures, in order to do the work the way she first thought of it. For even after any possible obtaining of a permit and the short-lasting satisfaction at having achieved the aim, the unspoken question would remain: why on earth insist on the need to draw attention to truth and historical facts?