Šejla Kamerić
Bosnian Girl
2007
EB70
6 screen prints on canvas in 6 color variations
Each 140 x 100 cm
Edition of 6 each + 2 AP, all prints signed and numbered
6.800 Euro (each)
Price on request (Series with 6 screen prints)
The media and the reality surrounding them are another point of reference in the artist’s work, who grew up in Sarajevo, a city besieged by war for over three and a half years. Bosnian Girl is based on a series of posters that were publicly displayed in 2003 on the 10th anniversary of the genocide of more than 8,000 Bosniaks in Srebrenica. The edition comprises six screen prints on canvas. They show the artist’s photographic portrait in six color variations with positive (4x) and negative (2x) effects on a black, red, white, or yellow background. Above it is handwritten “NO TEETH…? A MUSTACHE…? SMELL LIKE SHIT…? BOSNIAN GIRL!” (sic). This graffiti was written by an unknown Dutch soldier in 1994/95 on a wall of the barracks in Potocari, Srebrenica. The man was a member of the UN protection force UNPROFOR, responsible for protecting the Srebrenica safe area. “We live in a constant war in which the female body is used as territory. Bosnian Girl does not stand for me, but for every girl or woman… for everyone whose rights are denied. This work comes from Bosnia, but it tells a universal story of prejudice and bigotry.”1
Text: Eva Scharrer
1 Sejla Kamerić in an E-mail to René Block on July 27, 2022.