The Real Edges

The Bosnian war ended 25 years ago and the country seems to be plunged into a lethargy where everyone wanders in their own time and beliefs. The dead and the alive, the veterans of the conflict and the youth born in its ruins. Bosnia revives old demons, plays with fire. It is no longer war, this is not peace. How to translate into photography the strange feeling of a time that never ends dying, the dull violence that crosses the country? In This meaning, this work is a state of time, more than an inventory of places. The Edges real is like Bosnia today: fragmentary, ghostly, disoriented, vibrant and chaotic at the same time. By investing in this territory, these are the very limits of its practice – the documentary photography – which Adrien Selbert challenges here.