[spectre] (fwd) MACBA presents Kameric/Sala: 1395 Days without Red

[Andreas Broeckmann]

1395 Days without Red (2011)

A project by Sejla Kameric and Anri Sala in 
collaboration with Ari Benjamin Meyers
19 October 2011-9 January 2012

Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA)
Plaça dels Angels, 1
08001 Barcelona
http://www.macba.cat

 
					1395 Days 
without Red is a cinematographic project by ·ejla 
Kameriç and Anri Sala in collaboration with Ari 
Benjamin Meyers. Conceived, developed and filmed 
as a collaborative project, it resulted in two 
independent films, presented simultaneously, as 
two separate installations, for the first time at 
the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona 
(MACBA). The films are a unique opportunity to 
see how, having started with the same materials, 
the personal reading of each artist and their way 
of working-not only with the film material, but 
also the space-convey two completely different 
ways of understanding the same project.

1395 Days without Red digs deep into the 
experience of the siege of Sarajevo, which took 
place from 5 April 1992 to 29 February 1996, a 
period when, according to the UN, the city's 
inhabitants were reduced from 435,000 to 300,000. 
During this time, some 10,000 people were killed 
and over 56,000 were wounded by sniper bullets 
and exploding grenades. Thousands of homes and 
public buildings (including the university and 
the library, which housed over two million 
volumes) were destroyed in one of the longest 
sieges in European history. The two films show 
the trauma inflicted by the conflict on the 
people of Sarajevo. 1395 Days without Red is a 
journey to the past from the perspective of the 
present, through a series of daily routes in 
today's Sarajevo, which recreate what was once 
known as 'Sniper Alley'. A temporal journey 
referring to the universality of emotions beyond 
their geographical location and through a city's 
collective memory. The siege of Sarajevo lasted 
1,395 days.


1395 Days without Red (2011)
A film by ·ejla Kameriç
Single channel video, colour, sound, 65 mins

1395 Days without Red (2011)
A film by Anri Sala in collaboration with Liria Bégéja
Single channel video, colour, sound, 43 mins 46 secs

From a project by ·ejla Kameriç and Anri Sala in 
collaboration with Ari Benjamin Meyers

MACBA Collection. Fundació Museu d'Art 
Contemporani de Barcelona. Work co-produced by 
Artangel (London) and Fundació Museu d'Art 
Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA); Museum 
Boijmans Van Beuningen (Rotterdam) / with the 
support of Han Nefkens, H+F; Manchester 
International Festival / Whitworth Art Gallery 
(Manchester); Festival d'Automne (Paris); Arts 
Council England; European Cultural Foundation; 
Film Fund Sarajevo; Marian Goodman Gallery (New 
York) and Hauser & Wirth (London/Zurich). 
Acquisition 2010.
© 2011, Artangel, Sejla Kameric, Anri Sala, SCCA/pro.ba