Bosnian Girl, 2003
Selja Kameric
Photo: Michael Strasser / TBA21
Collection
Poster
97 x 67 cm
This public art project - distributed as posters, billboards, magazine ads, postcards - uses the graffiti "No teeth...? A mustache...? Smell like shit...? Bosnian Girl!" written by an unknown Dutch soldier on a wall of the army barracks in Potocari, Srebrenica, 1994/95. The Royal Netherlands Army troops, as part of the UN Protection Force (UNPROFOR) in Bosnia and Herzegovina 1992-95, were responsible for protecting the Srebrenica safe area yet failed to save 7000 Muslim men and boys in this supposedly "safe haven".
The work of Sejla Kameric is both intimate and socially engaged, as Kameric herself stares out at the viewer. She is the Bosnian girl standing in for all women in Bosnia, the disfiguration of a national identity.
*1976 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina | Living and working in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Berlin, Germany
97 x 67 cm
This public art project - distributed as posters, billboards, magazine ads, postcards - uses the graffiti "No teeth...? A mustache...? Smell like shit...? Bosnian Girl!" written by an unknown Dutch soldier on a wall of the army barracks in Potocari, Srebrenica, 1994/95. The Royal Netherlands Army troops, as part of the UN Protection Force (UNPROFOR) in Bosnia and Herzegovina 1992-95, were responsible for protecting the Srebrenica safe area yet failed to save 7000 Muslim men and boys in this supposedly "safe haven".
The work of Sejla Kameric is both intimate and socially engaged, as Kameric herself stares out at the viewer. She is the Bosnian girl standing in for all women in Bosnia, the disfiguration of a national identity.
*1976 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina | Living and working in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Berlin, Germany