As part of the Capital of Culture 2024, the artist Selma Selman is showing a triptych entitled “Until We Are More Than Gold: A Triptych”, consisting of a video performance, an installation and a film, in which she refers to the state of the Bosnian post-war economy. During the economic crisis, Selman’s family began collecting metal waste and later selling it to recycling centres. By repeatedly taking up the motif of collecting and recycling scrap metal, she questions the way in which we assign value to material objects and labour and how we relate to both. The video performance shows the documentation of her motherboards performance, in which the artist dismantles 200 motherboards and finally extracts 60 grams of gold from them. An installation of four portraits painted on car bonnets captures the memory of the first big wedding Selman’s family attended after the war. The film “Crossing The Blue Bridge” completes the triptych with a 30-minute exploration of Selman’s mother’s memories of a traumatic event on the so-called “Blue Bridge”. The opening will be accompanied by a performative reading of the “Letters to Omer”
Opening: 27/09/24 – 19:00 – Performance ‘Letters to Omer’
Letters to Omer (2021) is a performance in which Selma Selman weaves thoughts and visions of a better world with autobiographical fragments and political discord into a sound tapestry, which is second to none. Themes such as justice, whiteness and patriarchy can be found in it, as well as political equality and the constant search and longing for a self-determined reality. Selma in turn acts here as a mouthpiece and medium to give these themes space.
Finissage: 27/10/24 – 15:30 – Performance ‘Letters to Omer’
The lyrical performance ‘Letters to Omer’ can be seen at the same time as the finissage and conclusion of this successful exhibition by the artist in the stables of the Kaiservilla.
Directly after ‘Letters to Omer’ by Selma Selman’ in the Kaiserstallungen, you have the opportunity to attend the event ‘Performance for a Coloured House’ by Doris Uhllich for the finale of the Ai Weiwei exhibition (an associated project of the Capital of Culture Bad Ischl Salzkammergut 2024) at 16:30 at the Marmorschlössl.
