Exhibition View, Inblickar/Insights, 2022, Svenska Förvärv/Swedish Acquisitions 2021
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, SWE
Self Portraits 1991-92 (from the series Self Portraits)
In 1991, when Snežana Vučetić Bohm was studying at Nordens Fotoskola, she was asked to make a documentary photo reportage. Equipped with a stand, a self timer and a Rolleiflex camera – a classic model for photo journalists – she travelled to Yugoslavia, which was on the brink of civil war. Her choice to work in black and white is also in keeping with a long tradition of photo journalism. But in the midst of the political conflict around her, she turned the camera on herself.Both the tank on the bookshelf in her cousins’ home and the barbed-wire fence in the landscape near her grandmother’s house seem to prophesy the looming war. Vučetić Bohm meets our gaze as both observer and observed, as the human being she is, in a terrifying and incomprehensible situation. - text from exhibition catalouge, Moderna Museet, 2022
Exhibition view
Exhibition view
Self Portrait, Gärdet, Stockholm, Sweden, 1991
Self Portrait, Skopje, North-Macedonia, Yugoslavia, 1991
Self Portrait, Vranic, Serbia, Yugoslavia, 1991