Entitled Disturbed soil/Uznemirena tla, the series comprises works that the Serbian artist Vladimir Miladinović has painstakingly enlarged and copied from postcard sized original photographs taken by forensic investigators working with the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) who were documenting suspected mass graves sites.

Miladinović discovered the photographs in the archives of the ICTY as part of his ongoing engagement with the contested histories of the events that occurred in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s. Through the active process of painstakingly copying these small images, buried in the archival record of atrocity and therefore rendered invisible by the weight of material enclosed within the court records, Miladinović pays testimony to these nondescript places where human lives were treated with such disdain, dumped in mass graves, hidden from sight and from memory.

Charcoal drawing on paper, 150x190cm