The Memories module cherishes art as a special value since its inception, and the times we live in show how important such art is to us, emphasized Kreševljaković
This year’s 29th edition of Memory Module, one of the oldest programs dedicated to the culture of memory in this part of Europe, was announced for the period from April 6 to May 9, and the program was presented today at a press conference in Sarajevo held at the Art Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The organizers announced a meaningful festival emphasizing that the visual of this year’s edition is a war photograph by Danilo Krstanović showing the collapsed Loris building on Grbavica in Sarajevo, one of the symbols of the terrible destruction of residential buildings in the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina during the four-year war siege.
Artistic director Nihad Kreševljaković, the initiator of the Memory Module as a program that grew out of the war, emphasized that the culture of memory does not only mean a relationship to one’s own misfortune, but also empathy towards other sufferers, victims of war and injustice, which is unfortunately still very relevant today when images of unimaginable human suffering travel around the world. in Gaza.
The Memory module is one of the first institutional programs that deals with the culture of memory in this way, which grew out of the war, said Kreševljaković, who also emphasized the constant support of the festival by the Ministry of Veterans Affairs of the Sarajevo Canton, that is, the departmental minister, Omer Osmanović, and his sincere support and recognition of the importance of culture. memories.
The Memory module cherishes art as a special value since its inception, and the times we live in show how important such art is to us, emphasized Kreševljaković.
Minister Osmanović was also a student of the press conference and expressed his satisfaction that Kreševljaković, as the initiator of the festival, recognizes his sincere support. He evaluated the Memory module as a thirst for justice, a category inseparable from truth.
Osmanović remembers, he said, the day when the entrance to the Loris building was demolished, which is the scene in Krstanović’s photo, while today the same images come from Gaza, all links to the same culture of memory.
The Memory Module, together with the newly founded Sarajevo Memorial Center, should play a leading role in the systemic culture of memory and be the most significant project in that sense, Osmanović emphasized.
Festival coordinator Hana Bajrović Čardaković announced the varied and content programs of this year’s Memory Module, while Nihad Krešavljeković announced two promotions of Hana’s book “Theatre under Siege”, one in Budapest, Hungary, and the other in Bosnia and Herzegovina. That book is a very important contribution about art during the siege, said the artistic director of the Memory Module.
Bajrović Čardaković announced that this year’s festival will be opened with an exhibition of photos by Danilo Krstanović, and Loris said about his picture of the destroyed building that the organizers of the festival want to talk about the evil that goes around in circles and express respect and reverence for the victims through art.
Source: fokus.ba
