#war

 

Museum item: Paja Jovanović, Study for the painting Furor Teutonicus, cca 1900.

Digital item:  Minefield sign

Donor of digital item: Aleksandra Jelić

Note from Donor:

Serbian Sarajevo, winter of 1995, Dayton agreement just signed. I’m twenty-two years old and filming a documentary film. The surrounding streets all barricaded, everything is ruined, abandoned, the buildings are riddled with shrapnel. The street before me is empty, without a living creature in sight. I spot a single rope across it with a red sign hanging that reads “mines”.

I walk up to it and take it down, without fear and without logic I decide to keep it as a souvenir. I then spot a man in a window, his expression is blank… Life totally destroyed. His loneliness scares me instead of the mines. The film won the Grand Prix award at the Belgrade Short Film Festival. I keep the MINES sign as an anti war protest sign, in preparation, because there will be more of them to come.