Screens

It is July 11th 2012, and like every year on this date people gather to bury the loved ones lost in the Srebrenica genocide of 1995. For some the burial is an intimate event, for others a collective political gathering. Screens are used to protect: umbrellas not only protect against the burning midday sun, but also offer protection against the gaze of others, or a way to narrow one's own field of vision. Cameras are used in a similar way: helping to see, but also helping not to see too much, and to retain the distance. Fragile intimate histories collide with public history in the effort to keep the memory alive.