Triennial 2008   Artists   Sejla Kameric

Title: I remember I forgot
Location: Various – see site map

Kameric’s project comprises of twelve photographic installations in public spaces (police station, outdoor outfitters, ice-cream parlour, pub, hotel etc) as well as six large-scale billboards in
specially selected sites across the town that carry a strong a sense of history. Visitors will be invited to join a journey through Folkestone taking in Kameric’s atmospheric images and stories that document the changing face of the town.

In addition, a set of postcards are being sold at Rennie’s Seaside Moderin in the Old High Street as a memento of the project and the town. This way the artist’s work will reach both the wider public and the private, personal sphere.

Born Bosnia Herzegovina, 1976. Lives and works in Sarajevo and Berlin.

Šejla Kamerić uses mainly photography and video as media juxtaposing an explicit social context with intimate perspectives. She creates tense artefacts from society through an almost obsessive documentation of details and objects surrounding her. Public interventions, diverse types of actions and
site-specifically installations are one of the most important aspects of her approach to art.

Recent solo exhibitions include

Is it rain or is a hurricane, Emil Filla Gallery, Ústí nad Labem, Czech
Republic 2008 What do I know, DAAD Gallery, Berlin, Germany 2008 Mit tudok,
Trafo – House of Contemporary Arts, Budapest, Hungary 2007 What Do I Know, O.K.
Center for Contemporary Art, Linz, Austria 2007 Brand New, Contemporary Art
Institute EXIT – Kosove 2006 Sejla Kameric (Another Expo – Beyond the Nation -
States), Gallery SOAP – Kitakyushu, Japan 2005

Recent group exhibitions and festivals include

(30th) Clermont – Ferrand Short Film Festival, In competition, Labo, Francuska
2008

(64th) Venice International Film Festival, Corto Cortissimo, In competition,
World premiere, Venice, Italy 2007 Hell is ..other people, Stedelijk Museum
Bureau – Amsterdam 2007 History Started Playing With My Life, The Israeli
Center for Digital Art, Holon, Israel 2007 Zones of Contact, 15th Biennale of Sydney
- Australia 2006

Kamerić was awarded the DAAD Fellowship in 2007.

See Sejla Kameric’s work
www.sejlakameric.com