kultura sjećanja / remembrance culture
Screening of the film "Aphasia" by Jelena Jureša in Sarajevo
The Sarajevo premiere of the film "Aphasia" by visual artist Jelena Jureša will be held at the History Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina on Thursday, October 9, 2025, with an accompanying program.
"Aphasia" is a feature-length film essay that explores the politics of memory within European historical and social contexts. The film is divided into three chapters and addresses networks of power, racism, injustice and violence. A special place in the film is occupied by an episode inspired by the famous photograph by Ron Haviv, taken in Bijeljina on April 2, 1992, which appears in the film through speech, movement and performance, without ever being explicitly shown.
PROGRAM | Thursday, October 9, 2025 | History Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo
- 16:30 – "Aphasia" On Review: the first screening of the film
- 18:00 – Conversation with Jelena Jureša, Nidžara Ahmetašević, Adna Muslija and Nebojša Jovanović
- 19:00 – Official opening and film screening
About the author:
Jelena Jureša is a visual artist who explores the themes of identity, memory politics, collective forgetting and the ethics of visual representation in her work. She was born in Novi Sad, and lives and works in Ghent (Belgium). She exhibited at numerous international exhibitions and festivals, and the film "Aphasia" was created as part of her doctoral research at the University of Ghent and the KASK Conservatorium.
The screening of the film is organized as part of the project “Responding to Trauma and Cultural Heritage Destruction”, funded by the European Union under the Creative Europe Programme. The project involves five organizations: the Historical Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Documenta – Centre for Dealing with the Past (Croatia), BLOCKFREI (Austria), STAN (Ukraine) and Apoteka – Space for Contemporary Art (Croatia).
Funded by the European Union. The views and opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Executive Agency for Education and Culture (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor the EACEA can be held responsible for them.
