WITHOUT RED

Šejla Kamerić: 1395 Days Without Red, Legat Gallery owned by Milica Zorić and Rodoljub Čolaković, Belgrade, 23th May -24th June 2012

By: Vladimir Bjeličić

Twenty years after the siege of the city and as part of Sarajevo Days Festival, Milica Zorić’s and Rodoljub Čolaković’s Legat Gallery presented an independent exhibition by Bosnian artist Šejla Kamerić ’’1395 Days Without Red’’. The title refers to the number of days the Bosnian capital was under siege, when people were advised not to wear anything red, because the snipers could immediately spot them. Šejla Kamerić is a well-known artist throughout the region, but this is her first independent exhibition in Belgrade. Locally, she has been known only by her cooperation with Uroš Đurić. Šejla Kamerić has been creating art for over a decade and is part of the regional contemporary art scene thanks to her authentic socially engaged work. She uses different media (video, photography, installations) to present traumas of war as the main topic, i.e. to present her personal experience of the military conflicts in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 1990’s, as well as various other processes that create or erase national identity. Her work was created during several periods, some of them even a decade ago, which makes this exhibition a presentation of her overall work.

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