Getting Closer —DRAFT
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The almost four years of the siege of Sarajevo and its circumstances are 20 years later still to a large extent connected to the city of Sarajevo. This applies to the external perception but as I noticed being here on the KABK fieldtrip for the Sarajevans naturally much stronger.
One generation later I was wondering how the process of making peace is happening here. What inner traces does a war leave behind, can one forget and forgive? And most of all: can an enemy become a friend?
With a lack of real war experience I forced myself to put me in the position of the most nauseating soldier one can imagine, the sniper. It is the cruellest offender for two reasons: he is invisible for the victim and most of all he keeps the distance, not only areal but also psychologically, by simply being detached from sensual affects by the long distance.
To come closer myself and getting answers on this theme I made this video installation which is displaying a possible approach to the concrete person and a letting go of the distance.
