'A Crushed Image (20 years after Srebrenica)' - Jason File foto: © The Rodina
A Crushed Image (20 years after Srebrenica)
Part of See You in The Hague (a multifaceted narrative about the ambitions and reality of The Hague as International City of Peace and Justice)
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.
A Crushed Image (20 years after Srebrenica) is made possible in part by the city of The Hague.
LINKS
http://peterkoole.com
http://jasonfile.com
PRESS
Donaustroom.eu, 6 May 2018
if then is now, 26 August 2015
Creating Rights, 8 June 2015
if then is now, 3 June 2015 (in Dutch)
if then is now, 7 May 2015 (in Dutch)
Justice Hub, 10 April 2015
Trendbeheer, 10 April 2015 (in Dutch)
Jegens en Tevens, 9 April 2015 (in Dutch)
chmkoome's blog, 29 March 2015 (in Dutch)
Justice Hub, 27 March 2015
VPRO Nooit meer slapen, 20 March 2015 (interviews with slideshow) (in Dutch)
Saturday 11 July 2015, 15 hrs
National Srebrenica Commemoration
Location: Plein, The Hague
On 11 July 1995 the Srebrenica Massacre took place: the genocidal killing of more than 8.000 Muslim boys and men, who were officially under the protection of a Dutch UN battalion. Every year, since 1997, there is a commemoration of the event in The Hague.
www.srebrenica-herdenking.nl