Through the series Into Which Narrative Was I Born? (History Meditations), I explore my relationship to the teaching of three mutually exclusive, competing historical narratives to primary school children, in my home country of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

 

Like many other members of my generation, I was born into a fourth narrative, taught in schools before the war of the 1990s, under the former Yugoslav system. Later, as a 13 year-old refugee in the last year of primary school, I experienced an official switch in historical ‘truths’ in the classroom, which marked my attitude towards this phenomenon.

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I create my medium through playing with the idea of torn out scraps from the different History textbooks, that are currently used in the final grade of primary schools across BiH. Through interweaving the competing narratives, the emerging forms open up new conversations.

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Into Which Narrative Was I Born? was exhibited at the History Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, from 7th July until 31 August 2023.