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When our Sarajevo exhibition was just about to open two weeks ago, Bosnia was struck with natural disaster. Most of the Balkan countries suffered from enormous flooding and our colleagues at the National Gallery in Sarajevo ran down to the basement every five minutes to check whether the art works stored there had been damaged. (And fortunately they had not).

Amidst all this incessant rain, fear of water damage and the installation of the exhibition the two curators of our exhibition still found the time to talk to us. These interviews were maybe the most difficult and most enlightening ones: In none of our other exhibition venues had people experienced and were influenced by war this directly in their youth and had to deal with the consequences up to now.

We tried to shorten the interviews but could not bring ourselves to actually do it. Interesting, fascinating, although a long read is what you will find starting with Maja Abdomerović.