Šejla Kamerić, "Imagine", Video Still, 2005
Šejla Kamerić,
"Imagine", Video Still, 2005
Opening: Wednesday, May 21, 2008, 6pm
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The Bosnian artist Šejla Kameric (born in 1976) is one of a circle of
young Balkan artists who reflect in their work the dramatic processes of the
disintegration of the local communist regimes and the subsequent painful search
for a new national and social identity. Typical of this generation of post-war
artists, who have been gradually making a name on the international scene since
the mid 1990s, is the accentuation of the conflict between local cultural traditions
and elements of the global lifestyle. They also voice criticism of the destruction
of relations between the individual and the social systems, under the influence
of extreme national intolerance.
For the exhibition in the Emil Filla Gallery Šejla Kameric has prepared
a couple of new works, which react to the basic theme of the Land of Human Rights
project, and at the same time see the issues of the Balkan conflict from a certain
distance. (The author herself characterizes this attitude as a principle of
scars or scarring – i.e. a situation where violence is not actually present,
but it latently continues influencing behaviour of both individuals and the
whole society.)
Duration of the exhibition: 22.5.2008 - 28.6.2008
Opening hours: MO - FR, 10:00 - 13:00, 14.00 - 20:00, SA, 10:00
- 14:00
Address: Emil Filla Gallery, Velká Hradební str.
19, 400 01 Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic
Further information: www.gef.cz