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| Šejla
Kamerić 22 November 2008 – 25 January 2009 |
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Opening Friday, 21st November 2008, 6.30 pm in the context of Innsbruck Premierentage Opening by Dr. Thomas Juen, Office of the Tyrolean Provincial Government, Department for Culture Dr. Silvia Eiblmayr, director, will speak about the exhibition. |
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| The exhibition of work by
Bosnian artist Šejla
Kamerić is dealing with history, with distant memories
from the past. On the one hand, Kamerić shows a fictive film scenario
of her family history, and on the other hand, photographic works in which she traces indications of a violent past − on the surface of a wall, or using the example of an historical colour photograph from the Warsaw ghetto. The four-part video installation What Do I Know (2007) concerns the history of her own family. The scene of the interwoven stories is her grandparents’ house in Sarajevo, where Šejla Kamerić had played as a child, and which has been standing empty since the civil war in former Yugoslavia. In dreamlike sequences, we are given a suggestion of love stories that took place when her grandparents were still young. “The story was written as a memento of other people’s love that I have not witnessed.” (Šejla Kamerić) The furnishings of the house seem unaltered, as if time had stood still. All the characters in the film are played by children, who appear wearing clothes from the 1950s. In her photographic works − sometimes she works with found pictures as well − Kamerić examines the subject of scars as a metaphor of the violence and destruction that is triggered by human civilisation, and war in particular. The series Red (2008) consists of shots of brick walls revealing bullet holes; a pointer to the artist’s traumatic personal history, having lived in Sarajevo as a teenager when it was being bombarded by missiles and grenades. In the photo-installation Sunset (2008), one sees a projected photo − the only known colour photograph showing the Warsaw ghetto in flames. Kamerić animated this image using digital means and so created an atmosphere that sparks horror: She causes the smoke to drift over the burning part of the city. The installation is accompanied by scarcely audible background noise; the sound of the uninhabited city during the fire, which sometimes conveys the impression of music. Šejla Kamerić was born in Sarajevo in 1976. She lives and works in Sarajevo and Berlin. |
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