A Crushed Image (20 years after Srebrenica)
In 1995 in Srebrenica thousands of Muslims were taken from a protected enclave, right from under the eyes of Dutch soldiers. The majority of them were later killed.
Right now, 20 years later, and right here in The Hague, where the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia is winding down its activities and where the Dutch government resides, the artist Peter Koole wants to exhibit his Balkan Paintings (2005-2011). A series of works intended to keep the memory of the genocide alive. In painful and sometimes hysterical paintings, he highlights the doubts, the madness and the pretence of politics, in the media, with the victims' families and within himself. And feeds our feelings of discomfort, feelings that may better suit '20 years Srebrenica' than mere resignation.
The exhibition also features new works by Jason File, who is both an artist and a prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. In a number of his works he explores alternative modes of understanding evidentiary material used at the Tribunal, sometimes incorporating it directly into the work. "There is so much more potential for the material used, than just evidence", he says. To read more about Jason File's view on the merging of the 鈥榣egal' and the 鈥榓rtistic' read his postscript on www.seeyouinthehague.nl.
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In 1995 in Srebrenica thousands of Muslims were taken from a protected enclave, right from under the eyes of Dutch soldiers. The majority of them were later killed.
Right now, 20 years later, and right here in The Hague, where the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia is winding down its activities and where the Dutch government resides, the artist Peter Koole wants to exhibit his Balkan Paintings (2005-2011). A series of works intended to keep the memory of the genocide alive. In painful and sometimes hysterical paintings, he highlights the doubts, the madness and the pretence of politics, in the media, with the victims' families and within himself. And feeds our feelings of discomfort, feelings that may better suit '20 years Srebrenica' than mere resignation.
The exhibition also features new works by Jason File, who is both an artist and a prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. In a number of his works he explores alternative modes of understanding evidentiary material used at the Tribunal, sometimes incorporating it directly into the work. "There is so much more potential for the material used, than just evidence", he says. To read more about Jason File's view on the merging of the 鈥榣egal' and the 鈥榓rtistic' read his postscript on www.seeyouinthehague.nl.
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