Šejla Kamerić

(1976) - a visual artist born in Sarajevo whose practice involves film, photography, objects, drawings and installations. One of the most prominent contemporary artists in Bosnia and Herzegovina. When the war started, Šejla Kamerić was just 16 years old with a successful career as a model. She continued her modeling career during the early years of the war. During the Siege of Sarajevo, she graduated from the High School for Applied Arts, and enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts Sarajevo. She worked with the group Trio, which designed a series of postcards Greetings from Sarajevo (1993) in order to draw international attention to the situation in the besieged Sarajevo. Šejla has received widespread acclaim for the poignant intimacy and social commentary that have become the main elements of her work. Taking up the subjects that arise from non-linear historical narratives, as well as personal histories, Kamerić places her focus on the politics of memory, modes of resistance in human life and consequential idiosyncrasies of women’s struggle.