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Bosnian Girl
ArtistŠejla Kamerić
Year2003
Medium
  • Postcards
  • posters
  • billboards
Šejla Kamerić, Bosnian Girl (2003), exhibition view at 4. Berliner Herbstsalon at Maxim Gorki Theatre, October–November 2019.
Original graffiti from Srebrenica

Bosnian Girl[1] is a discriminator artwork by a visual artist Šejla Kamerić that started in 2003 as a public project consisting of postcards, posters, billboards, that is exhibited either as an intervention into public space or as a black and white photograph in various dimensions. It was done in collaboration with photographer Tarik Samarah.

Description and analysis

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It is part of the multiple permanent exhibitions and museum collections, including in the Memorial Centre Potočari,[2] Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Selected exhibitions

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  • 2003 The Gorges of the Balkans, curated by Rene Block, 30.08. – 23.11.2003, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany.
  • 2003 Balkan Konzulat: Sarajevo, curated by Lejla Hodžić, October – November 2003, Rotor Gallery, Graz, Austria.
  • 2004 Others and Dreams, solo show, 18.09.–24.10.2004, Portikus Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
  • 2005 Another Expo – Beyond the Nation-States, curated by Shinya Watanabe, June 2005, Gallery Level1, Kitakyushu, Japan.
  • 2005 Another Expo – Beyond the Nation-States, curated by Shinya Watanabe, September 2005, Gallery White Box, New York, USA.
  • 2007 L‘enfer, C‘est les Autres / ‘Hell is… other people’, 22.07. – 09.09.2007, curated by Nathalie Zonnenberg, Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
  • 2008 Šejla Kamerić, 22.11.2008 – 25.01.2009, Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck, Austria.
  • 2008 Cutting Realities: Gender Strategies in Art, curated by Walter Seidl, 23.09.-29.11.2008, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York, USA.
  • 2009 Gender Check – Femininity and Masculinity in the Art of Eastern Europe, curated by Bojana Pejić, 13.11.2009 – 14.11.2010, Museum of Modern Art (MUMOK), Vienna, Austria.
  • 2009 Windows upon Oceans – 8. Baltic Biennial of Contemporary Art, Muzeum Narodowe w Szczecinie, Szczecin, Poland.
  • 2010 A Pair of Left Shoes, curated by Tihomir Milovac, 16.04. –27.05.2010, Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, Croatia.
  • 2010 No More Drama, Röda Sten Centre for Contemporary Art and Culture, Göteborg, Sweden.
  • 2011 1395 Days without Red, Museum of contemporary art Belgrade, Serbia.
  • 2012 9th Gwangju Biennale: Round Table, Artistic Co-directors: Sunjung Kim, Mami Kataoka, Carol Yinghua Lu, Nancy Adajania, Wassan AI-Khudhairi, Alia Swastika, 7 September – 11 November 2012, Various venues, Gwangju, South Korea.
  • 2012 Šejla Kamerić – 1395 Days without Red, 30.11.2012 – 20.01.2013, CAC Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania.
  • 2013 Public Diary, 5th Yebisu International Festival for Art and Alternative Visions, curated by Keiko Okamura, 08. – 28.02. 2013, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan.
  • 2014 Memory Lane – Contemporary Art Scene from Bosnia and Herzegovina, curated by Pierre Courtin, 07.06. – 26.07. 2014, Galerie du Jour-agnés b., Paris, France.
  • 2015 Remember Lidice, curated by Rene Block, 12.09.2015 – 13.02.2016, Edition Block, Berlin, Germany.
  • 2015 Autonomy of Self. Rejecting violence with the lens in former Ottoman territories, curated by Joy Stacy, 11.09. – 31.10.2015, P21 Gallery, London, UK.
  • 2015 30 Years After, curated by Erzen Shkololli, 04.05. – 04.06.2015, National Gallery of Kosovo, Prishtina, Kosovo.
  • 2015 When the Heart Goes Bing Bam Boom, curated by, curated by Başak Doğa Temür, 11.12. 2015 – 28.02.2016, Arter – Space for Art, Vehbi Koç Foundation, Istanbul[3]
  • 2018 I Really Really Really Really Really, curated by Peter Tomaž Dobrila, 09.11. – 01.12.2018, ACE Kibla, Maribor.

Collections

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Selected bibliography

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  • TOMAŠOVIĆ, Joško. "Šejla Kamerić" in: Andre/Others, Sørlandets Kunstmuseum, 2005, pp. 42–45.
  • HODŽIĆ, Lejla. "Balkan Konsulat. Sarajevo", in: Balkan Konsulat (ed. Makovec, Margarethe and Lederer, Anton), <rotor> and Revolver, Graz-Frankfurt am Main 2006, pp. 96–111.
  • BLAŽEVIĆ, Dunja. "Šejla Kamerić", in: Vodič kroz izložbu Kontakt Beograd …dela iz kolekcije Erste Bank Grupe, Muzej savremene umetnosti Beograd (20.01.-1.03.2007), (ed. Seidl, Walter and Stellwag-Carion, Cornelia), Kontakt. Umetnička kolekcija Erste Bank Grupe, 2007.
  • BLOCK, Rene and BABIS, Marius (ed.). Die Balkan-Trilogie/The Balkan Trilogy, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel 2007.
  • HELMS, Elissa. “East and West Kiss. Gender, Orientalism, and Balkanism in Muslim-Majority Bosnia-Herzegovina”, in: Slavic Review, vol. 67, no. 1., 2008, pp. 88–119[8]
  • HUGHS, Jeffrey and TURKOVIC, Dana (ed.). Odavde (from here), Otuda (from there), Webster University, St. Louis 2008[9]
  • MEREWETHER, Charles. "Unerledigte Angelegenheiten: Dream House and Bosnian Girl/Unifinshed Business: Dream House and Bosnian Girl" in: Portikus 2004-2007. Book of a Sleeping Village, Frankfurt am Main – Cologne 2008, pp. 109–119.
  • SEIDL, Walter (ed.). Cutting Realities. Gender Strategies in Art. Works from Kontakt. The Art Collection of Erste Bank Group, Vienna 2008.
  • ĐORĐEVIĆ, Tamara. “Postkolonijalne studije i Balkanizam: Bosnian Girl”, 2009[10]
  • NEUMAYR, Agnes. “Šejla Kamerić: Die Kunst vermag est, Vorurteile Aufzubrechen un das Bewusstsein der Menschen zu verandern”, in: Politik der Gefühle: Susanne K. Langer und Hannah Arendt, Innsbruck University Press, Innsburck 2009, pp. 354–369.
  • PEJIĆ, Bojana (ed.). Gender Check: Femininity and Masculinity in the Art of Eastern Europe, Moderne Kunst Stiftung Ludiwg Wien, Vienna 2009[11]
  • MUKA, Edi. Šejla Kamerić, (ed.) Meral Agish, Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin 2011
  • GRŽINIĆ, Marina. “Europe: Gender, Class, Race.”, in: The Scholar & Feminist Online, 10. 3. 2012[12]
  • HELMS, Elissa. “Bosnian Girl’: Nationalism and Innocence through Images of Women”, in: Retracting Images: Visual Culture After Yugoslavia (ed. Šuber, Danilo and Karamanić, Slobodan), 2012, pp. 193 – 222[13]
  • HOŠIĆ, Irfan. Iz/van konteksta. Ogledi i kritike iz umjetnosti, arhitekture i mode, Connectum Sarajevo, 2013[14]
  • HOYOS, Nathalie and SCHUMAHER Rainald (ed.). "Fragile Sense of Hope", Berlin 2014.
  • BALIÇ, İlkay (ed.). Šejla Kamerić. When The Heart Goes Bing Bam Boom, ARTER, Istanbul 2015[15]
  • BLACKWOOD, Jonathan. Introduction to Contemporary Art in BiH, 2010.
  • ĐELILOVIĆ, Asim. Muzej u Egzilu. Bosna i Hercegovina u modernom dobu (drugo dopunjeno izdajanje), Sarajevo 2015.
  • MUKA, Edi (text). Šejla Kamerić. 30 Year After, National Gallery of Kosovo, Prishtina 2015.
  • BUDEN, Boris. "Šejla Kamerić, Bosnian Girl, 2003", in: Kontakt (ed. Eiblmyr, Silvia, Ševčik, Jiří, Schöllhammer, Georg, Stipančić, Branka And Szymczyk, Adam), Vienna 2017, pp. 215–217.
  • GOSLING, Lucinda, ROBINSON Hilary, TOBIN Amy (ed.). The Art of Feminism: Images that Shaped the Fight for Equality, 1857–2017, Chronicle Books LLC, San Francisco, 2018.
  • ČVORO, Uroš. Transitional Aesthetics: Contemporary Art at the Edge of Europe, Bloomsbury Academic, 2018[16]

References

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  1. ^ "Bosnian Girl, 2003 – Šejla Kamerić Official Webpage". sejlakameric.com. Archived from the original on 2019-09-21. Retrieved 2019-09-21.
  2. ^ "Srebrenica-Potocari Memorial Center & Cemetery (Bosnia and Herzegovina) – Sites of Conscience". Retrieved 2020-06-25.
  3. ^ "Šejla Kamerić". www.artforum.com. Retrieved 2019-09-21.
  4. ^ "Šejla Kamerić – Collection – eMuseum". kontakt-collection.net. Retrieved 2019-09-21.
  5. ^ "Šejla Kamerić". Art Collection Telekom. Retrieved 2019-09-21.
  6. ^ "VKV Vehbi Koç Vakfı". www.vkv.org.tr. Retrieved 2019-09-21.
  7. ^ "Početna | Srebrenica Memorial". www.srebrenicamemorial.org. Retrieved 2020-06-25.
  8. ^ Helms, Elissa (2008). "East and West Kiss: Gender, Orientalism, and Balkanism in Muslim-Majority Bosnia-Herzegovina". Slavic Review. 67 (1): 88–119. doi:10.2307/27652770. ISSN 0037-6779. JSTOR 27652770.
  9. ^ HUGHS, Jeffrey, TURKOVIC, Dana. "Odavde (from here), Otuda (from there)" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2019-09-21.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  10. ^ "Arte – Tamara Đorđević – Tekstovi". www.arte.rs. Retrieved 2019-09-21.
  11. ^ "Gender Check". www.mumok.at. Retrieved 2019-09-21.
  12. ^ "Europe: Gender, Class, Race". S&F Online. Retrieved 2019-09-21.
  13. ^ Helms, Elissa. "'Bosnian Girl': Nationalism and Innocence through Images of Women", in: Retracting Images: Visual Culture After Yugoslavia (ed. Šuber, Danilo and Karamanić, Slobodan)" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2019-09-21.
  14. ^ Hošić, Irfan. Iz/van konteksta. Ogledi i kritike iz umjetnosti, arhitekture i mode.
  15. ^ "Šejla Kamerić: When the Heart Goes Bing Bam Boom – Announcements – e-flux". www.e-flux.com. Retrieved 2019-09-21.
  16. ^ Bloomsbury.com. "Transitional Aesthetics". Bloomsbury Publishing. Retrieved 2019-09-21.
  17. ^ Telekom (2014-09-10). "Art Collection Telekom Presents: Sejla Kameric Discusses the Trauma of War". Telekom Electronic Beats. Retrieved 2019-09-21.
  18. ^ "What Does a Victim Look Like? An Interview with Šejla Kamerić on the Legacy of "Bosnian Girl"". Balkanist. 2015-07-07. Retrieved 2019-09-21.
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