Generational trauma: Right to remember
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Bosnia

 

As a next step of “massive body loss” research by Zeynep Kozoğlu and Belkıs Sena Top, “How not to forget?” was the concern as an issue of Architectures of Care. Conflict in the Balkans, in general, in the last century and, primarily, the Bosnian War between 1992 and 1995, is studied.  Rather than studying monuments and memorials, I searched for new ways to not forget the loss. Real traces of War (unintentional monuments of War) are benefited. A semi-fictional apartment is created by bringing different pieces from the city as victims of War. Different narrated stories, which benefited from oral history, documents, and photographs, are located behind each opening—photographs as documents of victims are located behind holes generated by bullet scars. Also, the back side of the apartment displays keywords and explanations about the injustice of war and newspaper fragments from the world that emphasize the Bosnian War.