CAN’T YOU SEE THEM / POV

Installation with light projecting Motion-Control-System „CYST“, archival video-8 footage and text

CAN’T YOU SEE THEM / POV is part of Između nas / Between Us, an open archive initiative at the Library Hamdija Kreševljaković Video Arhiv Sarajevo — a collection of videos shot during the siege of Sarajevo (1992–96). Thieme has a long-term collaboration with the Video Arhiv and the film group Save the Amazon Production based there, and co-founded the initiative with Nihad Kreševljaković, a member of both.

Thieme fathoms what subjective testimony can mean in the context of collective, traumatic upheavals. "Can’t You See Them / P.O.V" focus on archival material from the Library Hamdija Kresevljakovic Video Arhiv, a collection of private videos documenting the military siege of Sarajevo (1992-1996) from the perspective of the entrapped citizens. Thieme juxtaposes these testimonies with different data-analytic and imaging material that objectifies them by means of technical and juridical procedures. Thieme's work raises questions of what function these objectifying processes form. Do they change the individual experiences that lie at their bottom? And how does this affect our ability to put us in relation?

Daniel Pies

CAN’T YOU SEE THEM / POV

Installation with Motion Control System, LED Light, optical lens (CYST), photo, video and text;

In collaboration with / Nihad Kresevljakovic & the Library Hamdija Kresevljakovic Video Arhiv, Sarajevo; Archival Video by Nedim Alikadic, Sarajevo, Grbavica, May 2, 1992;

Digital Image Analysis & VFX / Till Beckmann; Computational Artist / Constantin Engelmann;