Bio : Born 1982 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the former Yugoslavia. Lives and works in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Description : This piece originates from the artist's attempt to face her wartime childhood and the experience of losing her father by a sniper's deadly shot. The aggressor’s sniper campaign directed against the civil population of the besieged Sarajevo was an inhuman violation of the rules or customs of war. Jusić‘s father, a member of the Bosnian Army from the outset of the war on 3 December 1992, was given a combat command to neutralize enemy sniper soldiers. During such an assignment he was shot himself by a bullet hitting him in the eye. A short time prior to her father‘s death Jusić found his notebook where he continuously, over several months, listed how many soldiers he had killed during his (military) sorties. By trying to reconstruct the total number of killed snipers Adela Jusić confronts herself with the fading but traumatic memory of her soldier father.