ROSES OF SARAJEVO // ANTIWAR PERFORMANCE/INSTALLATION // SARAJEVO 2022

anti-war performance/installation

ROSES OF SARAJEVO

anti-war performance/installation by Josef Ka

photography: Ajša Hadžić

video: Dzejla Salihovic

special thanks to Zoran Milutinovic

and Semir Smajić

Sarajevo 1992 – 2022

Sarajevo Roses or Roses of Sarajevo is the name of the craters left by fragments of artillery shells on the streets of the city of Sarajevo during the Bosnian War. The craters on the asphalt in places where people died from shells were filled not with new asphalt, but with tar with the addition of plastic and red paint. Left in memory of numerous civilian casualties during the siege of Sarajevo in 1992-1995.

Published by Josef Ka

Josef Ka is an artist who focuses mainly on site-specific visual arts and performance art. She has a deep and continuing relationship with a wide range of dance forms and traditions – from classical ballet to butoh and flamenco – and often gets her inspiration from her own personal history and experiences, in combination with a direct engagement with the here and now of life as she lives it. Three often-recurring themes in her work are Happiness, Time and Memory.

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