If I Hadn't Done It… / video / color / hdv / 13:03 min / 2014
In the video work If I Hadn't Done It…, conceived in the context of a large
commemoration marking the anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War, Igor
Bošnjak problematizes the position of a historical figure, the perpetrator of the
assassination of Franz Ferdinand, Gavrilo Princip, through a subjective,
psychoanalytical approach. With his camera, he records his movements through the
streets of Sarajevo, in the first person, reconstructing events and the scene of the
assassination itself, bringing dramatization to it with his comments and timecode, with
time relentlessly running out. The artist's action is performed at the central place of the
great commemoration - Sarajevo, a city of violent and traumatic social, political and
ideological past, in which each new evaluation of historical positions is problematic
and very painful.
In the video work If I Hadn't Done It…, conceived in the context of a large
commemoration marking the anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War, Igor
Bošnjak problematizes the position of a historical figure, the perpetrator of the
assassination of Franz Ferdinand, Gavrilo Princip, through a subjective,
psychoanalytical approach. With his camera, he records his movements through the
streets of Sarajevo, in the first person, reconstructing events and the scene of the
assassination itself, bringing dramatization to it with his comments and timecode, with
time relentlessly running out. The artist's action is performed at the central place of the
great commemoration - Sarajevo, a city of violent and traumatic social, political and
ideological past, in which each new evaluation of historical positions is problematic
and very painful.
