O izložbi / About the exibition

Izložba Jelene Jaćimović je jedan vid otpora protiv dominantne politike sećanja u Srbiji zasnovane na nacionalizmu i militarizmu koja se ogleda u negiranju ratnih zločina i genocida počinjenih od strane srpskih snaga, glorifikaciji osuđenih ratnih zločinaca i vojske, kao i instrumentalizaciji srpskih žrtava.

Nasleđa ratova su i dalje prisutna u postjugoslovenskim društvima. Početkom 2000-ih, postjugoslovenske države bar formalno su se obavezale tranzicionoj pravdi. Međutim, skoro dvadeset godina otkako su se ratovi okončali, šanse za tranzicionu pravdu i pomirenje su još manje. Pored toga, raspad Jugoslavije podrazumevao je i fragmentaciju kulture sećanja po etničkim linijama i današnje duboko podeljene i nekompatibilne kulture sećanja u regionu. Političari i političarke, mediji i javni diskursi otvoreno promovišu revizionistički i nacionalistički diskurs koji glorifikuje sopstvenu naciju dok kriminalizuje druge. Rezultat toga je i neznanje kod šire populacije o sistematskim kršenjima ljudskih prava počinjenih tokom ratova kao i o manipulisanoj i selektivnoj prirodi dominantnih narativa. Genocid u Srebrenici je u Srbiji najistaknutiji primer tog revizionizma.

Inspiracija autorke je priča Amre Begić Fazlić, žene koja je preživela genocid u Srebrenici i koja radi u Memorijalnom centru Potočari, čiji su otac i deda ubijeni u julu 1995. godine. Njena priča o snu u kome traži kosti svoga oca, o bebi Fatimi, najboljem drugu, komšijama, porodici, naviknutosti na smrt, ocu i Srebrenici je jedna od mnogih ličnih iskustava koja se moraju saslušati i nikad ne zaboraviti.

Izložba se bavi prikazom ličnih priča kroz autorkinu analizu iz arhiva sudskih dokumenata, video materijala, fotografija, kao i priča koje Memorijalni centar Srebrenica, kao i mnogi mediji i dalje beleže. Cilj je preneti priče i iskustva žrtava, preživelih i njihovih porodica kroz ilustracije koje se ne bave počiniocima i krivcima.

Na sajtu archiwar.com šira javnost će imati priliku da pogleda radove, pročita priče o istim, ali i da doprinese širenju svesti kroz bilo kakav vid stvaralaštva koji bi na sajtu nakon izložbe bio objavljivan. To važi najviše za umetnike/ce i pojedince/pojedinke/grupe koji i sami/e žele da stvaraju nešto slično i da nastave tamo gde je projekat ArchiWar započet. Plan je da platforma raste u održiv medijum koja će na digitalni i interaktivni način predstavljati različite sadržaje vezane za oružane sukobe devedesetih godina i istovremeno pružiti prostor za delovanje pojedincima i pojedinkama.

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The exhibition by Jelena Jaćimović represents a way of resisting the dominant memory politics in Serbia based on nationalism and militarism that encompasses the denial of war crimes and genocide committed by Serb forces, glorification of sentenced war criminals and army, and instrumentalisation of Serb victims.

The legacies of the 1990s wars are still present in post-Yugoslav societies. In the early 2000s, the post-Yugoslav countries seemed to have at least formally committed to transitional justice. However, two decades after the end of the armed conflicts, the chances for transitional justice and reconciliations are even slimmer.

Additionally, the dissolution of Yugoslavia involved fragmentation of its culture of remembrance along the ethnic lines and led to today’s deeply divided and incompatible memory cultures in the post-Yugoslav space. Politicians, media and public discourses across the region openly promote a revisionist and nationalist discourse that glorifies own nation and criminalises the others. The result of this tendency is a lack of awareness among society at large about the systematic human rights violations during the wars and about the manipulated and selective nature of the dominant narratives. The denial of the Srebrenica genocide in Serbia is the most prominent example of this revisionism.

The inspiration for the author was the story of Amra Begić Fazlić, a woman who survived the genocide in Srebrenica and who currently works in Memorial Center Potočari, whose father and grandfather were killed in July 1995. Her story about a dream in which she is searching for her father’s bones, about baby Fatima, her best friend, neighbours, family, getting used to death, about her father and Srebrenica is one of many personal experiences that must be heard and must never be forgotten.

The exhibition is a display of personal stories through the author’s archival analysis of court records, video materials, photographs, as well as the stories still documented by the Memorial Center Srebrenica and many media. The goal is to share the stories and experiences of the victims, survivors and their families through illustrations that do not deal with perpetrators and those guilty.

The website archiwar.com is an opportunity for the wider public to look at the artwork, read stories about it and contribute to raising awareness through different forms of creativity that would be posted on the webpage beyond the exhibition. This is also an invitation for artists, individuals and groups who want to create something similar themselves and continue there where Archiwar project started. The plan is for the platform to grow into a sustainable medium that will present different content related to the 1990s wars in digital and interactive ways and provide people with the space for action.

Izložba je nastala u saradnji sa Fondom za humanitarno pravo i uz podršku Rekonstrukcije ženskog fonda kroz program Specijalni fokus. /

The exhibition was created in cooperation with Humanitarian Law Center with the support of the Special Focus programme by Reconstruction Women’s Fund.