It is generally known that the road to hell is paved with good intentions. For the past sixteen years the international intervention in the Balkans called “Dayton Agreement” completed the ethnical division of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Lana Čmajčanin (Bosnia and Herzegovina), offers an ironical opportunity to make a proper model of BIH according to individual’s means, desires, and needs.

... Artists of the If you’re trapped in the dream of the other, you’re fucked! exhibition take democracy seriously and once again remind us that art is today one of the few spaces where politics proper takes place. How, if not with an artistic expression, is it possible to give a voice to the trauma of our times, which we so manically try to cover with words – war. In the closing section of the exhibition Lana Čmajčanin and Igor Grubić (Bosnia and Herzegovina/Croatia) will do so with shouting silence.

Extract from If you’re trapped in the dream of the other, you’re fucked! exhibition online catalogue

Curated by Katja Kobolt
Online catalogue of the exhibition, 2011
English