Perverted Gaze
video installation, colour, sound, 14'50'',
Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2020.
Recording, editing and sound: © Igor Bošnjak
Igor Bošnjak’s video Perverted Gaze shows six border crossings
in Bosnia and Herzegovina that were filmed using a drone. This
aerial footage has been taken from various standpoints,
communicating both an up-close look and a more distant
perspective. The result generates insights into the activities at each
location, offering a view of Bosnia’s apparently untouched
mountain landscape. Yet it is not Bošnjak’s intention to create an
aesthetic; instead, he is both visualising and simulating the
process of surveilling, controlling and observing through his
artistic practice. Bošnjak uses the border crossings that arose as a
result of the Yugoslavian war, and the state monitoring that
resulted, as the occasion for carrying out forbidden monitoring.
He avails himself of drone technology to take on the role of
monitor and observe locations of government power. Bošnjak uses
this research-oriented approach to analyse sociopolitical reality in
Bosnia and Herzegovina.
This artwork is part of the ifa art collection.
in Bosnia and Herzegovina that were filmed using a drone. This
aerial footage has been taken from various standpoints,
communicating both an up-close look and a more distant
perspective. The result generates insights into the activities at each
location, offering a view of Bosnia’s apparently untouched
mountain landscape. Yet it is not Bošnjak’s intention to create an
aesthetic; instead, he is both visualising and simulating the
process of surveilling, controlling and observing through his
artistic practice. Bošnjak uses the border crossings that arose as a
result of the Yugoslavian war, and the state monitoring that
resulted, as the occasion for carrying out forbidden monitoring.
He avails himself of drone technology to take on the role of
monitor and observe locations of government power. Bošnjak uses
this research-oriented approach to analyse sociopolitical reality in
Bosnia and Herzegovina.
This artwork is part of the ifa art collection.
