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I built the boat in honor of Renata Horvat in my studio RADI/ONA, using planks collected from buildings damaged in the earthquake. “In Zagreb, which is currently one vast construction site, I gathered planks to embed them into the boat, carrying them into my ship‑building site / workshop, where she works / where the entire fleet BRODI/ONA is being built. In this g‑radi‑ona I construct boats, using floors and roofs salvaged from construction sites in the earthquake‑stricken city. From the planks gathered across the city as a consequence of the earthquake, from buildings, from material, from the city itself that suffered, I in‑g/rad‑ed them into this boat… most of all, planks from the Museum of Arts and Crafts. … To renew the Museum of Arts and Crafts into a City of Arts and Crafts, to transform all empty spaces into working spaces… spaces for art and craft. WORK BUILDS THE CITY. RADI/ONA is the prerequisite for the BRODI/ONA fleet, it is also G/RADI/ONA: the working space in which I IN‑CORPORATED THE CITY INTO THE BOAT, into the vessel, in honor of Zagreb helmswoman Renata Horvat.”

radi / ona → radiona → radi → gradi → građa → zgrada → grad → WORK >> work builds the city ship‑building site → “I embed the CITY into the boat, the boat into the CITY.”

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The continuation of the Zagreb launch will be the Adriatic launch in Petra’s, but also in Renata’s and Besa’s Pula, in the shipyard where Besa was built, and from where Renata, as godmother, named and launched it on its journey around the world in 1965.