After war and trauma, both people and places can experience a kind of muted existence, as if time becomes frozen in memories, destruction, or grief. Time moves, people move on, but the memories remain and are passed on to future generations.

During the Balkan wars of the 1990s, Sarajevo was besieged by Serbian forces for nearly four years, from April 5, 1992, to February 29, 1996. This was the longest siege of a capital city in modern history. The city was subjected to constant shelling and sniper attacks. Many civilians lost their lives, and the city was severely damaged. Traces of this are still visible today, even 30 years after the war.

Sarajevo and its people carry the scars of what happened, even as the city and its inhabitants move forward again.

The project was carried out with support from Kulturetaten.

Adin Music (b. 1995, Norway) critically engages with the impact of modern technology on contemporary life. Particularly researching digitalization, surveillance, and light as a source of information, while also investigating notions of identity and belonging. Music graduated with an MFA from the Academy of Fine Arts, Oslo in 2024. He is one of the FKDS fellows with a studio at Kunstnernes Hus.