The Bosnian-Herzegovinian artist presents What Do I Know, a four-piece projection. The claustrophobia suggested by the spatial presentation will echo a central filmic theme; that is, film as providing a physically sensible structure of space.
On the occasion of the Berlinale 2008, the Artists-in-Berlin Program, as
usual, presents the work of an artist whose main medium is film or video.
This year, the Bosnian-Herzegovinian artist Selia Kameric will show her film
What do I know (2007). After having been shown as a film on the Venice Film
Festival 2007, where it received widespread attention, the work will now be
exhibited in the daadgalerie as a four-piece projection, effectively making
it a video-installation. The claustrophobia suggested by the spatial
presentation will echo a central filmic theme; that is, film as providing a
physically sensible structure of space.
"Kameric's most recent work, the 15-minute short film and the 23-minute
four-part film installation based on it, What Do I Know, deals with another
distant past, the time when her grandparents were still young. The setting
is the house of her grandfather in Sarajevo, who ran a café on the ground
floor and lived upstairs from it. In the now vacant building, it seems as
though time has stood still: furniture, wall paper, dishes and other
household items all breathe the spirit of the 1950s. With close-up shots and
slow camera pans accompanied by piano music through the abandoned rooms, the
house becomes a still-life of itself. Children appear in between, dressed in
historical costumes of adults at the time. There are brief allusions to
three different interlocking love stories with unhappy or fatal ends."
Selia Kameric was born in 1976, in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina and is
already considered one of the country's most successful artistic
ambassadors. She has had solo exhibitions in Japan, Austria and Germany and
has taken part in numerous group shows all over the globe. In 2005, she was
invited to the 51st International Short Film Festival Oberhausen and a year
later showed her work on the 15th Biennale of Sydney. In 2007, her film What
Do I Know was selected for 64th Mostra Internazionale D'Arte Cinematografica
in Venice. Kameriæ has been member of the European Cultural Parliament since
2002. She lives and works in Sarajevo and Berlin.
Opening: 8 February 2008, 7pm - 9pm
daadgalerie
Zimmerstr. 90-91 - Berlin
Opening Hours: Daily 11am - 6pm, closed Sundays