Christian Schwager
Drei sekundäre Massengräber bei Bljeceva, Nähe Bratunac, Herbst 2004
Drei sekundäre Massengräber bei Bljeceva, Nähe Bratunac, Herbst 2004, 2004
From My Lovely Bosnia
C-Print, 57 x 70 cm
Collection Fotomuseum Winterthur, gift Christian Schwager
2010-005-010
b. 1966 (Zurich, CH), lives and works in Winterthur, CH
Map legends provide a key to understanding a kind of abstract geography. Christian Schwager, whose photographic projects operate on the outer limits of documentary representation, offers potential clues to understanding his images through his carefully researched titles. “My Lovely Bosnia” (2003/04) shows tracts of lands in Bosnia that are still full of landmines, which, barely marked, can represent the threshold between life and death. Schwager counters the presence of danger with the paradisiac ideal of the romantic landscape.