From 7. to 23. July, Kortil Gallery will host one of the most eminent artists in the region, Šejla Kamerić with her exibition SUMMERISNOTOVER.

Šejla is coming to Rijeka to be one of the tutors on the international workshop for development of original documentary film Ex Oriente Film + REFINERI (21. -26. July) organized by the Institute of Documentary Film IDF from Prague and the Association UKUS. As one of the tutors on the workshop, Kamerić will also give a masterclass and a guidance through the exhibition (on 23. July at 5 PM) and will personally introduce several of her films and videos (in Art- kino Croatia’s summer stage, on 24. July at 9.30 PM). Most of the works in the exhibition Šejla Kamerić exposes for the first time in Croatia, and her films will have its Rijeka premiere.

Exhibition SUMMERISNOTOVER by Šejla Kamerić will be opened in Kortil Gallery on Monday, 7. July at 8 PM.

Work SUMMERISNOTOVER, by which the exibition was named, explores the interpretation and reinterpretation of images. Presenting the photography in different forms and in various sizes explores the diversity of meaning. A central feature of modernity and especially digital modernity is the convergence of images that once existed in separate, distinct categories – documentary images, artistic images and vernacular images – into one giant, undifferentiated image stream. All images now impinge upon one another and our understanding of the world via images is in the process of a massive historical shift.

By puting images into different perspective the image itself gets a whole new significance within the public and private level. The title of the exhibition SUMMERISNOTOVER is the title of the art work in which Šejla Kamerić exposes how violence can too easily recede into spectacle, and how new social forms of image circulation are transforming the means by which we understand the world. Using the same title for the exhibition Kamerić extends the idea of the change of our understanding of the world in the material space.

Some of the works that will be shown in the exhibition are done in collaboration with the young artist Dante Buu (1987) whose work is dealing with how the public influences private, once private becomes public.

Apart from the work SUMMERISNOTOVER, Kamerić will also present a photo installation “June is June Everywhere (self-portrait)”, which consists of hand-printed black and white pictures, depicting a wall with bullet holes. It is the outside wall of the artist’s bedroom, exactly where her head rests while she is sleeping.

Sejla Kameric_Portrait_manjaŠejla Kamerić, born 1976 in Sarajevo, lives and works in Sarajevo and Berlin.

Her first short film WHAT DO I KNOW, premiered in Corto Cortissimo section of (64th) Venice International Film Festival and circulated over 40 film festivals winning the Golden Pram for the Best Short Film at (5th) Zagreb Film Festival and (15th) Adana Film Festival. Her first feature length film 1395 DAYS WITHOUT RED premiered at Manchester International Festival, and was screened at numerous festivals and museums, including Sarajevo Film Festival, Istanbul Modern, MACBA and Metropolitan Museum of Tokyo.

Selected solo exhibitions: Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius; Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade; MSUM Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana; Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah Art Museum – March Meeting, Sharjah (2012); MACBA, Barcelona; No More Drama, RödaSten, Göteborg; Prospectif Cinema, Centre Pompidou, Paris (2010); What do I know, DAAD Galerie, Berlin; GalerieimTaxispalais, Innsbruck (2008); Brand New, The Kosova Art Gallery – Museum Priština and EXIT Gallery (2006), Priština; Closed, ZemaljskiMuzejBosneiHercegovine, Sarajevo (2005); Others and Dreams, Portikus, Frankfurt a. M. (2004).

Selected group exhibitions: Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo (2013); Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju; La LaLa Human Steps, Istanbul Modern Art Museum, Istanbul; ModernaMuseet, Stockholm; Marrakech Biennale, Marrakech (2012); Glück happens, StädtischeGalerie, Erlangen (2010) Squatting, TemporäreKunsthalle, Berlin (2009), Gender Check. Femininity and Masculinity in the Art of Eastern Europe, Museum ModernerKunst, Vienna (2009); ZEIGEN.An Audio Tour Through Berlin, TemporäreKunsthalle, Berlin (2009); Windows upon Oceans – 8. Baltic Biennial of Contemporary Art, MuzeumNarodowe w Szczecinie, Szczecin (2009).