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Adla IsanoviĆ

Images Within Us

video | hdv | couleur | 4:19 | Bosnie-Herzégovine | 2012

There is a huge amount of well-known media reports recorded in Sarajevo during the Siege (1992-1996). Media framed those events, streets, places and people into well-known images, common representations of war. Audience around the world was/is able to watch such imagery, over and over again. Adla Isanović erased the whole urban scene and context out of it, leaving only images of people. In that way, she explores how does the audience`s relationship to such imagery of people, whose context is erased-change. After pictures, what remains? What is our relationship with such images, representations, subjectivity, knowledge, with facts, feelings, emotions and experiences?

Adla Isanović Born 1977 in Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina). Lives and works in Sarajevo. She holds a MA in “New Media”, as well as a MA in “Critical, Curatorial, Cybermedia Studies” (Geneva, Switzerland). She works at the Academy of Fine Arts Sarajevo as Assistant professor on the courses on Multimedia. Furthermore, she was a visiting lecturer at the International University Sarajevo, as well as at the Academy of Performing Arts Sarajevo. Her previous engagements include a work as a researcher/analyst at the Mediacentar Sarajevo. She has been engaged on numerous local and international projects in the fields of culture and art. Her artworks were presented in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austria, Switzerland, Slovakia, Montenegro, Ireland, Netherlands, Great Britain, Latvia, Italy, Germany, Greece, France, Canada, Japan, Columbia, etc.