In the winter of 1994, during a moment of ceasefire in the Bosnian war, a mother and her daughter went to the market in their Bosnian hometown of Bihać. To return home, they had to cross a bridge covered with human bodies and dogs’ carcasses. They did so, walking for three minutes which felt like half an hour, as the mother covered her daughter’s eyes.
This episode, which happened to artist Selma Selman’s mother and sister, is the premise of her video “Crossing the Blue Bridge”, the centrepiece of her solo exhibition at the Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt, opening in June. “I feel that bridge represented all the bridges we have…
