Stone Sleepers - Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2009
Stone Sleepers show the long forgotten and decaying medieval tombstones, the only physical remains of man-made Bosnia before it’s imperial subjugations, first to Ottoman and then to Austro-Hungarian Empire.
The project is collaboration with Toronto’s York University professor Amila Buturovic. As discussed in her book Stone Speaker these cemeteries have been naturalized by landscape and remain only witnesses, however silent, to the lost world to which many contemporary Bosnians have very uncertain relationship.
A few centuries of dense history have passed, the centuries filled with imperial conquests, world wars, local wars and nationalistic awakening of different ethnic groups, severing the links between the medieval dead and today’s Bosnian historical imagination.
