Art and Culture Events

Curator: Claudia Zini

An exhibition in collaboration with Steve Bates and Zeenat Nagree
June 2nd – 25th 2023

The exhibition Unfolding Elsewheres displays some of the most representative works by artist Velibor Božović. It contains his earlier autobiographical video work My Prisoner (2016), a memory project titled Unfolding Elsewheres (2016-2023) and his latest sound work titled Listening series (2023). A new radio project Radio Elsewheres, produced by the artist in collaboration with writer Zeenat Nagree and artist and musician Steve Bates, will launch and operate from within the exhibition space.

The memory project Unfolding Elsewheres is composed of a series of photographic prints of firsthand accounts of people’s lives before, during and after the war in the 1990s, collected by Božović and writer Aleksandar Hemon while interviewing members of the Bosnian diaspora. The artist later transcribed and reassembled these conversations by purposely eliminating their syntactic elements, resulting in fragmented texts that open a space for a viewer to explore points of familiarity and strangeness.

The exhibition also features the Listening series, a composition of various audio recordings that echo a fluid assembly of voices telling of lives in transition. The work was born in close correlation to Radio Elsewheres, a program conceptualized specifically for the exhibition that aims to become a space for reflection and dialogue open to artists, musicians, journalists, writers, poets, storytellers and others interested in sharing their projects and experiences around conflict, movement, and migration. Those interested in contributing to Radio Elsewheres, please check the open call at the link: https://www.radioelsewheres.net/.