They were young lads, they waited for me more than an hour in the other people’s apartment in order to check if my face really resembled an angel’s on paintings by old masters as I had written back in the days when angels were legally outlawed This was a completely new police in the spirit of the new times […]
I’m turning over a new leaf, I’ve got my health back I’ll write about love again, I murmur to myself while the chock-full bus tilts dangerously on a curve like a blue flower on its too-frail stem I will spend this day looking at façades freshly painted in shiny Austrian ochre around Zrinjevac Park I will fill my eyes […]
From the start we should have informed Red Riding Hood all about the wolf Later the hunter turned out not to have a mandate to use firearms The fairy tale in this case let us down tr. W. Browne
Bosnian art portrays the war as terrifying, painful, and profoundly disfiguring; at the same time, it offers a sharp critique of the “deeply concerned” political community and the organisations that so casually draw lines on maps. Borders, queues for water, the cold-blooded killing of adults and children. These are all present in the Bosnian works selected below. For Ukrainians, […]
Excerpts from a lecture at the Historical Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina In post-war communities, urban spaces often become places where the past and the future intersect. Destroyed infrastructure, abandoned buildings, and neglected public spaces became blank canvases for subcultures that use them for creative and political expression. Graffiti, street art, skateboarding, and other forms of urban culture often occupy […]