‹Culture of Remembrance› marks the final event of the regional project ‹Network for Participative Culture of Remembrance›, carried out in the Western Balkans from 2011 to 2012. The aim of the project was to analyse the different and often contradictory perspectives of the recent history in the territory of the former Yugoslavia and to reflect on individual images of these events.
For the exhibition ‹Culture of Remembrance›, the project coordinators invited friends and acquaintances from Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, Croatia, Macedonia and Serbia - many of them artists themselves - to document an important memory or a special experience and to illustrate it with a photograph and an accompanying text. The result is a kaleidoscope of varying memories and images about a carefree childhood in socialist Yugoslavia, the last family outing to the Croatian coast before the outbreak of the civil war, a birthday party in the besieged Sarajevo, which was held without any friends from school, a parked car in front of the now unguarded Partisan Monument and much more. The participants in the exhibition have shared their personal memories of everyday things and moments. The war was a radical turning point and divides the people's lives into before and after the war, a fact that is expressed subtly in the documented memories.
The project ‹Network for Participative Culture of Remembrance› was supported by the Swiss Cultural Programme in the Western Balkans and designed and realised by Loja Centre for Balkan Cooperation (Tetovo), MESS Festival (Sarajevo), Youth Initiative for Human Rights (Belgrade) and Quendra Multimedia (Prishtina) as a joint project.
Curated by: Lejla Hodzic
Coordinated by: Belma Jusufovic
The preview party will take place as part of the ‹ART OF CHANGE›conference.
Entrance free
