In the National Museum in Sarajevo, from August 1st to September 31st, the exhibition "Memories in Stone" will be displayed. It is a multimedia and multidisciplinary project that brings together an international team of researchers and artists from Bosnia and Herzegovina of origin, which was originally realized in 2017 at the Ismaili Center in Toronto under the auspices of the Aga Khan Foundation. The main thematic focus is cemeteries from the Ottoman period and funerary culture reflected in architecture, iconography, and epigraphy. Although they are considered places of death, stone cemeteries are also places where new narratives of life and interpersonal relations are written in pluralistic Bosnia and Herzegovina. What is written in stone is etched in memory, and the exhibition "Memories in Stone" shows in the best possible way a special aspect of the splendor and beauty of our rich historical heritage. The authors of the exhibition are distinguished scientists, historians, and artists, headed by Amila Buturović (York University, Toronto, Canada), a historian of culture and religion whose research work deals with cemeteries from the early Ottoman period and analyzes changes in eschatological sensibility and the culture of death that occurred during Ottomanization and Islamization. in these areas. Azra Akšamija (MIT, Cambridge, USA), architectural historian and conceptual artist, presents at the exhibition an interactive carpet woven by refugee women after the war, which testifies to the continuity of BiH. culture and the continuity of suffering and losses through the transformation of traditional motifs of Bosnian rugs into motifs that bear witness to the experience of war. Velibor Božović (Concordia University, Montreal, Canada) is a visual artist whose works in this project are both a documentary and an interpretive travelogue through the cemeteries of Bosnia and Herzegovina in their naturalized state. In his works, Velibor examines the influence of photography on memory in a space where historical, fictional, and personal narratives are intertwined. Adis Elias Fejzić (Brisbane, Australia) is an internationally recognized sculptor who explores the relationships that stećci builds in the context of contemporary Bosnian and world culture. In this exhibition, his sculpture reliefs close the historical circle of imprinting memory in stone as an individual creative act, from the past, traditional, to the present and sophisticated, articulated in the language of contemporary art. The exhibition is the result of cooperation between the Bosnia and Herzegovina-American Academy of Arts and Sciences (BHAAAS) and the National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina. (https://www.klix.ba/)
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