Šejla Kamerić

BURN BY STAYING COOL
Kunsthaus Dresden
Apr 08 – May 29, 2022

BURN BY STAYING COOL by Šejla Kamerić brings together a number of recent large­-format artistic installations and interventions developed in the spaces of the former Robotron canteen, part of Kunsthaus Dresden:
“Šejla Kamerić seems to recognise that it’s impossible to truthfully translate the ineffable. Her works communicate by proxy, drawing on the material, the vulgar, the spectacular. The rhetoric we encounter in the works is familiar— intentionally so—as it is found throughout capitalist societies. By adopting such language, these works gesture towards the things that stand behind, untranslatable. This is akin to the poem’s subversive power: words—or to convert this into visual means, objects, shapes, images—clear space for what’s not there. But this is not art for art’s sake in the modernist sense. This is, instead, because any mediation of an experience is essentially incomplete, all the more so when it comes to experiences that can hardly be imagined by those of us listening”

(from the ENDLOSERSOMMER catalog text for BURN BY STAYING COOL by Natalija Paunić).

The show has been curated by Kunsthaus Dresden’s Christiane Mennicke and Robert Thiele.