Tuesday, 29 September at 7 pm

You are kindly invited to attend a book launch and conversation with the Italian photographer Lara Ciarabellini who recently published a comprehensive monograph, entitled Somnambulism that focuses on the situation in post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina. The book was released for Kehrer Verlag. The conversation will be conducted by Photon’s curator Miha Colner.

Somnambulism has been an intense journey into the intertwined layers of the collective memory of Bosnia and Herzegovina, to discover and unfold the multicultural heart of the country, its richness and its complexity. Wandering through new and old buildings and monuments, the book investigates the changes that characterise the landscape in the past few decades, from the death of Marshal Tito, throughout the bloody civil war in the 1990s, all the way to the current post-war period of constant transition. Bearing the difficulties of the past in mind, the project aims to engage the public to reflect over the collective and shared future of the Bosnian society.

Lara Ciarabellini is an Italian photographer passionate about Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Balkans. Since 2011 she has been studying and photographing landscapes, as a means to open a discourse about contemporary socio-political issues. She likes to describe herself and what she does by using the words of her friends Fiko: “her faithful companion, her camera, X-rays for due diligence of pain, animates the place where life stopped, not letting the oblivion devour it”, and Dino: “It’s the past caught in the lens of the present”.

Link to the book