Lana Čmajčanin evokes the disturbing confession of a woman who was raped and tortured during the war, but in the manner of a politician’s oration, bringing out the discrepancy between the victim-speech and power-speech. The orated text comes from the book “I beg them to kill me – Crimes against women in Bosnia and Herzegovina, published in 1999 by The Centre for Research and Documentation – The Association of Victims of Concentration-camps in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Extract from She Personally exhibition catalogue

Curated by Branka Vujanović
Exhibition catalogue, Zenica, 2009
Bosnian/English 

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