EXHIBITION

THE DIGNITY OF MAN …

Art Gallery of Bosnia Herzegovina, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo, 06/28/2014

ABOUT

In 2014 Europe commemorates a numberofsignificanthistoricalevents: a centuryhaspassedsincetheoutbreakof World War I; 100 yearsago Europe mournedthedeathof Bertha von Suttner, thefirstwomanevertowinthe Nobel PeacePrize; World War II broke out 75 yearsago, and 25 yearsagothe Berlin Wall finallyfell. The generationofwitnesses, victimsandperpetratorsisdisappearing, andonedaythere will benooneleftwhocan (orcould) tellthestoryofthe war years in Europe, when human dignity was closertofalteringthaneverbefore. Today theideaof a war ragingacross Europe seemsutterlyunrealistictomostofthecontinent’spopulation.

But isit, in fact? Whataretheeverydaysignsindicating a lossof human dignity? Whichstrategiescanweusetoprotectdignity, a centralhumanitarianprinciple, frombeinginstrumentalisedandcommercialised? A jointexhibitionprojectbythecitiesof Vienna, Sarajevo and Brno tales an artisticapproachtotheundermininganddismantlingoftheveryframeworkconditionsconsidered indispensable for “dignity” in connectionwith human lifeforms.

 

Image above: Dejan Kaludjerovic, Je Suis Malade - Slovenian version, 2008

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