Two-day exhibition to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of Dayton Agreement

14 and 15 December 2015

The bloody civil war which took place on the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina officially ended on 14 December 1995 with a peace accord signed by Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian political leaders. The peace agreement has divided the state in two ethnic entities, Republic of Srpska and Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The frontier has therefore been locally called the Dayton border, after the American city where the peace accord was signed at the Dayton military air base.

The photographer Borut Peterlin went to a bicycle tour along the demarcation line on two occasions and has documented the landscape and portraits of people who live there. He thus photographed the political landscape which is the manifestation of time and place. Through these images of landscapes that became a tool in hands of nationally oriented political discourse the artist explored how national(ist) symbols coexist with symbols of former, distinctly transnational Socialistic Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.