Paris: An exhibition on Jasenovac from tomorrow at the Cultural Centre of Serbia

"This exhibition is an attempt by the artist to revive the memory of the victims in a specific way and tell the story of people with names and surnames, not the story of numbers. Contrary to the idea that the victims in the camps are generalised into numbers thus almost turning into one victim, the author reveals the victims of Jasenovac through eight intimate stories and connects us with them and their destinies ", said Beljanski Popović for Tanjug.

As she added, another distinctive element of the exhibition came from the fact that the author chose for us to go through the whole experience only with the help of sound and thus develop our own images in the head, feel, imagine and unite with the atmosphere the author wanted us to absorb and experience.

The exhibition will be open until 16 April at the Cultural Centre of Serbia in Paris.

Before Paris, that audio exhibition, whose authors are Darko Nikolić and Bogdan Španjević, was organised in Belgrade, Kragujevac, Paraćin, Herceg Novi and Trebinje.

The exhibition brings eight sound recordings and radio stories about the victims of the Jasenovac camp, it is interactive and gives visitors the opportunity to become participants and co-creators of stories through a series of drama play activities.

The organisers of the exhibition estimate that "the discourse in which the number of victims becomes the central motive - actually obscures a whole set of facts and the very essence of the phenomenon".

"Victims shown only by numbers, no matter how many, never become personalities for us - unique, unrepeatable, real people, who had their names, hopes and desires, but remain forgotten in the nameless mass hidden behind numbers in the mathematics of alienation." stated the organisers.

Source: Tanjug