A Minefield About Which Few Maps Agree

The former Yugoslavia is a region which serves as a microcosm for many contemporary global issues. Notable are the two examples addressed by this exhibition – the unsettled status of Bosnia post-Dayton Agreement (1995), and the stalled recognition of Kosovo as a sovereign nation.

Maja Zećo and D A Calf are both artists primarily working with sound, and with longstanding engagements in the region. Zećo lived through the siege of Sarajevo as a child and completed a PhD contrasting the permanence and symbolism of soil as a record of homeland with the ephemerality of sonic worlds that signify belonging. Calf is currently completing a PhD on the problematics of monument sites in the lost futures of post-socialist Europe, and spends much of the year engaged in fieldwork in the former Yugoslavia, focusing on Bosnia, Kosovo, North Macedonia and Serbia.