Three years after the exhibition “They also defended their city” was presented at the same premises, the Art Gallery of BiH hosted another significant collection of photograps by Milomir Kovačević Strašni. Laureate of this year’s 6 April Award of the City of Sarajevo last night opened probably the most emotional exhibition in his career: Children in war.
Babies, toddlers that just started walking, girls and boys or teenagers – what all of them have in common is that they grew up in the besieged Sarajevo, bounded by war circumstances. The adult world perhaps could have come up with an explanation for the injustice, but children… How to explain a sniper, a shell, darkness, cold, hunger and death to a child? How the youngest ones expressed their children’s needs for play, carelessness, laugh, and friendship in the everyday life during a war?
Photographs of Milomir Kovačević Stašni answer these questions. Their specific black-and-white photographic signature records the imprints of one special generation of sumptuous optimism, hardened in deprivation.
The exhibition Children in war is a special tribute to the Sarajevo generation Y who, while their peers in Europe were memorizing lyrics of hits on MTV, knew by heart all calibers of weapons, the generation of the nineties which knows the feeling of happiness on a day of truce, the satisfaction when the power is on, the warmth of a tin wood furnace and the sweet taste of a rice pie. Visit the exhibition Children in war in the Art Gallery of BiH, every day except Sundays, between 10 a.m. and 8 p.m. The exhibition will be opened until March 29.
(Source: radiosarajevo.ba)
