Šejla Kamerić

ARCO Madrid 2023
Šejla Kamerić
22nd – 26th February 2023
Hall 9, Booth 9D11

Eugster || Belgrade presents a selection of new and existing iconic works by the renowned Bosnian-born artist Šejla Kamerić, one of the key art figures of the Yugoslav war generation with a strong international presence.

Šejla continues to be a leading voice of affirmative change, care and empathy when it comes to urgent societal questions, questions of gender, class, human rights and ecological survival. She refers, by means of soft power and subversion, to the most important questions of our times, reviewing the crucial role of feminism today, in a world charged by the toxic death drive of the patriarchy and capitalism. This is an especially important quality for art coming from a region set up by traditionalist traps that often lead to repressive nostalgia, formality and machismo. Šejla plays with the local specificities of her origins, but also with the world into which she exports this authenticity.

Excerpt from the exhibition text by Natalija Paunić

Bosnian girl (Edition Block), screen-prints on canvas in 6 variations of colours, 140 x 100 cm, 2007