“Criminal acts against life and body” by Simona Mancheva is a continuation of Simona’s previous artistic and research work, and is related to her field of interest, i.e. the environment in which she lives, i.e. the community’s (lack of) care for her. In her works, she tries to investigate how the problems of existence and the degraded system of values ​​affect the physical and mental health of the cohabitants. In her artistic practice, she talks about how the capital scene, that is, the orientation towards the accumulation of capital, disrupts the material and basic living conditions that affect health: inadequate housing conditions, inadequate and uncontrolled heating and environmental pollution. “How much is human life worth?” is the question that runs through her research and works, that is, how the necropolitical relationship of the criminogenic ruling structures affects the environment in which she lives.

She says that from a sociological and criminological point of view, crimes against life and body are the most elementary form of criminality. She researches our legal system, which says that today there are two types of crimes against life and body – natural and legal. Or as Günther Kaiser says: “Natural crimes, unlike the so-called legal acts of blood (whose incrimination in the law depends on the social order in the country), represent such acts, which by their essence have always been and will be crimes, regardless of all the changes in the historical sense and the development of human society.” (G.Kaizer, Criminology, Alexandria, Skopje, 1996, 319)

Natural acts of blood, which are acts against life and body, are accepted in society as a consequence of genetic predispositions, not the way and conditions in which we live. She believes that although predispositions are significant, the way of living and the environment greatly affect the quality of general health, injuries and diseases. What matters to her is how the community takes care of these conditions, and how it responds to conditions that disturb the general condition of the community and the individual in it. Who cares about collective health, she asks, and points out that caring for collective health is a matter of proactively acting together.