https://birgitludwig.com Birgit Ludwig Fri, 28 Aug 2026 21:28:41 +0000 https://birgitludwig.com en https://birgitludwig.com/Navigation Sat, 03 Apr 2021 20:30:26 +0000 Birgit Ludwig https://birgitludwig.com/Navigation birgit ludwig film: [ ] The Partition Annie Soustraction16mm photography:Antidotes k u r a g e The Fall of Anamorphosis Tomorrow we’ll sleep writing: Rivers of an Unreal Blue Antibody 19 inflatable icebergs le trait du Q about https://birgitludwig.com/k-u-r-a-g-e Fri, 28 Aug 2026 21:28:41 +0000 Birgit Ludwig https://birgitludwig.com/k-u-r-a-g-e k u r a g eJapan 08.2026 [ samples of a latent series ] <img width="4378" height="3491" width_o="4378" height_o="3491" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/07844bb1ee1102d4cbbe59ce7b7435d84a04daba9de9bea0fd57519c825be2a2/amak_rocks.jpg" data-mid="251672784" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/07844bb1ee1102d4cbbe59ce7b7435d84a04daba9de9bea0fd57519c825be2a2/amak_rocks.jpg" /> <img width="6697" height="5315" width_o="6697" height_o="5315" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5e619f4bf90a5e9fd52a2e1f94fea74e77710587e910b7ca18ac400e8a50d09e/eno_tarpolin1-crop1.jpg" data-mid="251678993" border="0" data-scale="77" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5e619f4bf90a5e9fd52a2e1f94fea74e77710587e910b7ca18ac400e8a50d09e/eno_tarpolin1-crop1.jpg" /> <img width="6697" height="5315" width_o="6697" height_o="5315" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e2e95f5ab96dce49ed54457dd0bdc34ddece63ae732056ccac1bfdb02e3c7688/eno_sanddolphins1-crop4.jpg" data-mid="251678342" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e2e95f5ab96dce49ed54457dd0bdc34ddece63ae732056ccac1bfdb02e3c7688/eno_sanddolphins1-crop4.jpg" /> <img width="6697" height="5315" width_o="6697" height_o="5315" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/eadf27eb741f40985e7d95727596b4598f0a5dd71018617fd4d1b89900236889/amak_swan.jpg" data-mid="251678237" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/eadf27eb741f40985e7d95727596b4598f0a5dd71018617fd4d1b89900236889/amak_swan.jpg" /> <img width="4359" height="3483" width_o="4359" height_o="3483" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d8d186d1e1ea2b9d59703485ba8d1bf34bab8959f4da4a00b5a310a28cd54a62/eno_crossguy.jpg" data-mid="251672785" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d8d186d1e1ea2b9d59703485ba8d1bf34bab8959f4da4a00b5a310a28cd54a62/eno_crossguy.jpg" /> <img width="4523" height="3590" width_o="4523" height_o="3590" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/98ebe568fa7169c8916cb38d8f987b920667eed3fa87f9a10432f865d973bd3b/eno_boysquat2-crop2.jpg" data-mid="251923046" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/98ebe568fa7169c8916cb38d8f987b920667eed3fa87f9a10432f865d973bd3b/eno_boysquat2-crop2.jpg" /> <img width="6697" height="5315" width_o="6697" height_o="5315" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/21b0933025bebb6d776f58713cf641d0080a9aa7938ad34d2c2ecc4297abe826/scarecrows_2-crop.jpg" data-mid="251678374" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/21b0933025bebb6d776f58713cf641d0080a9aa7938ad34d2c2ecc4297abe826/scarecrows_2-crop.jpg" /> <img width="6697" height="5315" width_o="6697" height_o="5315" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/105989877bfed4d833f7e4ee8a5766509d32ef5af7feeb57ef08453668bb5f6c/obon_1.jpg" data-mid="251767127" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/105989877bfed4d833f7e4ee8a5766509d32ef5af7feeb57ef08453668bb5f6c/obon_1.jpg" /> https://birgitludwig.com/THE-PARTITION Sun, 01 Oct 2017 17:34:39 +0000 Birgit Ludwig https://birgitludwig.com/THE-PARTITION T H E &nbsp; P A R T I T I O N SHORT FILM UK | HD Video | Colour | 21:21 | English, Polish, Swahili | English Subtitles | Written &amp; directed by Birgit Ludwig Camera: Birgit Ludwig Sound: Edward Lucas Edit: with Dominique Auvray &amp; Antoine Davenne Featuring &amp; in collaboration with: John Kamau, Sandi Hudson-Francis, Olga Stachowska, John Wagland, Penny Georgiou, Lin Clifton, James Graham, Gustave Robic a.o. Blake awakes from a coma for which there doesn't seem to be any explanation. The film interweaves his and other characters' discontinued journeys, marked by peculiar encounters and disclosures embedded in the interstitial fabric of the city. At once sober and enigmatic, 'The Partition' reflects on singularity, on alienation and intangible windows in the wider context of a shifting techno-capitalist environment. · INTERVIEW by Anne-Sophie Dinant pdf The film screened at: - RENCONTRES INTERNATIONALES PARIS / BERLIN 2019 FORUM DES IMAGES, PARIS - RENCONTRES INTERNATIONALES PARIS / BERLIN 2019 HAUS DER KULTUREN DER WELT, BERLIN - INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ARTS, London - BRITISH FILM INSTITUTE, London <img width="539" height="283" width_o="539" height_o="283" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2559851bd204ea117c5b0a9a9df52f41c1e5c9ccfd6a24c1487b83d8596a1db8/logo_ripb_2021_black_072dpi.jpeg" data-mid="177253988" border="0" data-scale="23" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/539/i/2559851bd204ea117c5b0a9a9df52f41c1e5c9ccfd6a24c1487b83d8596a1db8/logo_ripb_2021_black_072dpi.jpeg" /> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<img width="1087" height="611" width_o="1087" height_o="611" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1f152d699252cbf423392c8d7e3379340085d6bc14d2a7e56bdabf01198f4fd1/Still-1.jpg" data-mid="104163138" border="0" data-scale="50" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1f152d699252cbf423392c8d7e3379340085d6bc14d2a7e56bdabf01198f4fd1/Still-1.jpg" /> https://birgitludwig.com/ANNIE Mon, 18 Aug 2014 18:08:29 +0000 Birgit Ludwig https://birgitludwig.com/ANNIE A N N I ESHORT FILM Belgium, 2016 | 13:30 Mins | Colour | HD Video | French with English subtitlesDirected &amp; shot by Birgit Ludwig | | Sound mix by Edward Lucas Editing with Dominique Auvray ‘Annie’ is a hollowed filmic portrait of a heavily epileptic woman living reclusively in the countryside. The film combines the voice-over of an interview with her and filmed footage of the house and garden where she lives. The stillness and silence surrounding the house, her absence from the images, and her presence carved out of the filmed spaces, echo the experience of oblivion in the event of epilepsy.Her singular speech and the idiosyncratic explanations she gives of her condition and various incidents, open up a zone for an unconscious dimension that ties her into her world. The slippages, the peculiar visions and the staged domestic surroundings lend a distinctive meaning to her experiences and somehow do not cease to make sense, despite and beyond more rational approaches that claim to explain the workings of the brain and its illnesses. Selected Screenings:- ICA (Institute of Contemporary Arts), London- GENESIS Cinema, London- États Généraux du Documentaire, Lussas <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/858315b502d004b4050c8e690b1d9741bb12b13484116950b8d94cac8ceeffb6/anny-portrait-chambre_o.jpg" data-mid="104163318" border="0" data-scale="46" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/858315b502d004b4050c8e690b1d9741bb12b13484116950b8d94cac8ceeffb6/anny-portrait-chambre_o.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8b0e77117b0fab00c7d5215d6fae2b805282c1e8f43596540721b7997919e703/anny-sapins-maison_o.jpg" data-mid="104163316" border="0" data-scale="45" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8b0e77117b0fab00c7d5215d6fae2b805282c1e8f43596540721b7997919e703/anny-sapins-maison_o.jpg" /> https://birgitludwig.com/SOUSTRACTION Sun, 17 Jun 2012 13:30:14 +0000 Birgit Ludwig https://birgitludwig.com/SOUSTRACTION S O U S T R A C T I O N SHORT FILM UK | Luxembourg, Belgium, Portugal | 201417 mins | Colour | HD | French with English subtitlesWritten, directed &amp; shot by Birgit LudwigEdited with Benjamin Wright &amp; Dominique AuvraySound mix by Edward Lucas Elena embarks on an indefinite journey after finding a stranger’s farewell letter in a train station. She visits her mother’s house before heading south to reach the end of the continent. Throughout this quest for an intimate strangeness, a new horizon opens up. <img width="1915" height="1077" width_o="1915" height_o="1077" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/02610453949ec450464dfb046b80d15480d248600af7f7ebb1eeb8bbf4da8e1e/mess3_o.jpg" data-mid="104163479" border="0" data-scale="48" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/02610453949ec450464dfb046b80d15480d248600af7f7ebb1eeb8bbf4da8e1e/mess3_o.jpg" /> <img width="1915" height="1077" width_o="1915" height_o="1077" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/19ba310a58ef719a2fae16b69b5429ccb3969759232481ae0557cc4af88f2dbe/p5_o.jpg" data-mid="104163475" border="0" data-scale="48" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/19ba310a58ef719a2fae16b69b5429ccb3969759232481ae0557cc4af88f2dbe/p5_o.jpg" /> <img width="1915" height="1077" width_o="1915" height_o="1077" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f966779d7ab05503a03d11a618d6dc0101682e6e80aaa864b0d89f20454046c0/marloi1_o.jpg" data-mid="104163487" border="0" data-scale="48" data-no-zoom="true" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f966779d7ab05503a03d11a618d6dc0101682e6e80aaa864b0d89f20454046c0/marloi1_o.jpg" /> <img width="1915" height="1077" width_o="1915" height_o="1077" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/112e8c01a70a09f172b39bec7e8957f36543b4bd233f7db0c0faf58a41a60342/mess2_o.jpg" data-mid="104163477" border="0" data-scale="48" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/112e8c01a70a09f172b39bec7e8957f36543b4bd233f7db0c0faf58a41a60342/mess2_o.jpg" /> &nbsp; Note of Intention “Soustraction” portrays the journey of a subjective shift, of a person who leaves her world behind. It is set within a series of geographical and spatial displacement and stations, where the ideas of “self-other”, “interior-exterior”, “finite-infinite”, “visible-invisible” find a resonance. It is an elliptical journey that attempts to place an intangible, unconscious and intimate dimension into the opaque materiality of the world. Elena, the main protagonist, is drawn towards the end of the continent as if to reach a point where the finite breaks into an infinite. Despite running the risk of falling off “the map of her life”, she endeavours to subtract from prosthetic identifications and the alienating imperatives of the social bond in order to be more receptive to a truth that is fragile. The shots are fixed and the characters are kept at a distance. The camera’s point of view is not subjective; it is an external point of view, yet always at human height. Observation is preferred over psychological identification. Without theatricality or drama, the film aims to transmit a sense of the vertiginous real that is silently waging inside the character and moves her into new perspectives.The voice-over about the protagonist’s wonderings is essential in conveying a dimension that is intimate and often ineffable. So are the written letters that translate in writing what might otherwise never be said (like the questioning of the mother-daughter relationship and of femininity addressed to the mother). The editing consisted in fine-tuning the rhythm and establishing a distinctive place for the voice-over text within the visual and audible journey, avoiding illustration and overt signifying. The film has benefitted from the precious help of Dominique Auvray, editor among others of numerous films by Marguerite Duras...In my work I am always interested in the notion of the “intimate”, as that irreducible part of a subject, the deepest but always de-centred core where a subject feels closest to herself but also experiences her own otherness.Beyond the given framework of the film, I consider Elena’s move as a resistance to the quantifying and objectifying logic of the market, to the slow, quasi-scientific eradication of singularity in the name of control, transparency and security. Peoples’ grasp/invention of themselves as well as their relationship to their own unconscious is hijacked by consumer tactics and by the increased reliance on specialist knowledge.Capitalist ideology seems to cultivate a sort of disavowal of the fact that there is always a ‘real’ that escapes our grasp, a desert of meaning surrounding us - however complex our algorithms or sophisticated our micro/telescopes.Is the distanciation from ‘the world’ a necessary way for tying in with it more truthfully? Where does ‘the world’ end and where does it begin? Is the intimate endangered, as the (non-)place where the self is itself the division between an interior and an exterior?In a time when inter-human exchanges are increasingly accessorized and the universe on the way of becoming a taggable image, I am interested in characters that dwell in less manifest zones of existence. And I wonder how language supports such a disposition, against the closure of representations… when it affirms and does not eradicate the lack it drives on, which calls people into being.04/2015 https://birgitludwig.com/16MM Sun, 17 Jun 2012 15:07:20 +0000 Birgit Ludwig https://birgitludwig.com/16MM 16mm SHORT FILMS | COLLABORATIONS WITH BEN WRIGHT #1 “AND THEIR FLIGHT EXPLODED INTO SHIMMERING STARS” 16mm, Colour, 25mins, 2001 with Charlie Bligh and Birgit Ludwig London, Biarritz, Chamonix #2 “37 RYDAL WATER” 16mm, Colour, 16mins, 2000 with Birgit Ludwig and Mrs Kirk London <img width="850" height="584" width_o="850" height_o="584" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c079d5596605744659bc0e2d9ea20bfdd8661fc0e7f070de458bd367f8336a5e/fireworks cr_10_o.jpg" data-mid="104163728" border="0" data-scale="32" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/850/i/c079d5596605744659bc0e2d9ea20bfdd8661fc0e7f070de458bd367f8336a5e/fireworks cr_10_o.jpg" /> <img width="850" height="584" width_o="850" 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data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cf2fa3f2277e42e90e69d0f651fe928374ab410b75cfbb09680f5a132a8c8ba9/vv_bedroom_n4-copy.jpg" data-mid="210575078" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cf2fa3f2277e42e90e69d0f651fe928374ab410b75cfbb09680f5a132a8c8ba9/vv_bedroom_n4-copy.jpg" /> <img width="6697" height="5315" width_o="6697" height_o="5315" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6c23458e9db45da3e091c75364f1a491e31ff385814710d5d5afca2bfbc4b9dc/adisphotostone1-copy.jpg" data-mid="211099242" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6c23458e9db45da3e091c75364f1a491e31ff385814710d5d5afca2bfbc4b9dc/adisphotostone1-copy.jpg" /> * 31.06 - 31.08.2025 Antidotes | solo exhibition at the&nbsp;History Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo Driven by an interest in the aftermath of the Bosnian War and the context of an accident that caused my father's death in 1996 (working for an IGO at the end of the war) I embarked on an open-ended road trip.Almost thirty years following the Dayton Peace Accords, I became drawn into landscapes of contested memories, lingering traumas and imaginaries of different kinds.In the framework of a breathtaking nature, of a unique, age-old coexistence of cultures and religions, of multilateral geopolitical influences, of youths emigrating to other countries due to a lack of opportunities... ongoing tensions between ethnic divisions, a push for secession by Bosnian Serbs, historical revisionism and the denial of crimes and of genocide continue to undermine transitions to justice and reconciliation. With the support of&nbsp; Centre National de l'Audio-Visuel, Kultur.lx Arts Council, Konschthal Esch &amp; Ministry of&nbsp; Culture Luxembourg Finalist at the Sarajevo Photography Festival 2023 1. In several villages in the Romanija region (Eastern Republika Srpska), bonfires were burning. I was driving back to Sarajevo following an emotional commemoration in Potočari, where 50 newly identified genocide victims were buried. Here, Bosnian Serbs were celebrating a patriotic fest on the same day that, every year, commemorates the genocide in 1995.2.&nbsp;On a slope of the scenic Mount Vlašić (Central Bosnia), a group of teenagers were boxing outside a cottage. Lejla - a promising candidate for the next junior kickboxing championship - was preparing for an upcoming fight in Novi Travnik. 3.&nbsp; To the west above Sarajevo stands the majestic Mount Igman. Evening mist settles on its slopes, which were the main sites during the 1984 Winter Olympics. During the war, Mount Igman was a very strategic point, a free territory through which anyone escaping Sarajevo traversed, and crucial battles were fought on its frontlines.4.&nbsp;Inside the Potočari Memorial Museum, an uncanny reconstruction of the office of Colonel Thom Karremans who was appointed commander of the Dutch Battalion deployed to the enclave in 1995. Between the 11th and 22nd July that year, Srebrenica transformed into a genocidal death zone with no escape out, all this after the UN had promised military protection, and after the disarmament of all the people. 5. Izo was a young father and geologist, when he volunteered to join the army at the beginning of the Siege of Sarajevo.He spent many months on the frontlines in the mountains of Bjelašnica. Most Bosnian combatants lacked proper equipment; he wore his own clothes - his winter jacket, hiking shoes, and Converse trainers. Toward the end of the war, they suddenly received brand-new uniforms but, these were never to be used as the Dayton Accords (November 1995) ended the war, freezing the conflict lines, and establishing the Constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which is still in effect today. 6. Trash being burnt on the side of a road, near Prijedor (Krajina, Republika Srpska). 7.&nbsp;Amela was 11 yro when the war broke out. Lasting for almost four years, the Siege of Sarajevo was the longest lasting siege in modern history and left 11,000 residents dead, of which 1,600 were children. With her brother Mirza they collected wrappings of sweets they received in packages sent from abroad. They had to go all the way to New Sarajevo municipality to get them, risking their lives because one had to cross a few very dangerous points in the city and one never knew where or when shells would hit. &nbsp; 8.&nbsp;During the Bosnian wars, one of the most infamous paramilitary groups was called ‘The White Eagles’ (associated with the ultra-nationalist Serbian Radical Party). They played a major role in the ethnic cleansing in Bosnia and are responsible for a number of atrocities including the Višegrad massacres. Many of its members have been convicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia (ICTY). I found this mural painting in the centre of Višegrad. 9.&nbsp;In the dense forest outside Višegrad lies a hotel named ‘Vilina Vlas’. Advertised as a ‘rehabilitation health spa’, this hotel became a detention and rape camp during the war, led by ‘The White Eagles’ or ‘Avengers’. At least 200 woman and girls were taken here and tortured, most of them were killed and disappeared. 10.&nbsp;A current guest at the Vilina Vlas kept a strange collection hanging on her balcony’s washing line. There must have been more than hundred cigarette butts in that bag… Though rundown, the decor and most of the furniture hasn’t changed since the war. How a place of such grim memory could not close down, or at least be acknowledged as a site of historical crimes is puzzling. Either people do not condemn the acts that occurred, or they are in denial of their veracity. The systematic denial of the undeniable has become another way of waging a war. 11. A mural painted by soldiers of the Dutch Battalion inside the former battery factory that became the UN base in Potočari. 12. Every year thousands of people participate in a three-day commemoration hike called ‘Marš Mira’ (peace march) in the footsteps of a column of at least 15,000 men who fled Srebrenica in July 1995. More than half never reached the free territory, 110km to the north. Kübra, a journalist from Germany, gets ready to walk 35km until nightfall. 13. Dragana is a senior forensic anthropologist at The International Commission for Missing Persons (ICMP) in Tuzla. Her job is to inspect and to clean all human remains in order to attempt to assemble the dead, and to send bone cut-outs to the Netherlands for DNA sampling. This scientific work, at its most committed and advanced, helps to identify and give names to these human remains and return the dead back to the living for burial. The ICMP has also assisted the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia and domestic legal systems in providing crucial forensic information, leading to the conviction of numerous war and human rights criminals. 14. The remains of an unidentified person recently exhumed from a mass grave. The largest DNA-identification effort in history, the International Commission for Missing Persons (ICMP) has been able to identify almost 7,000 victims out of the more than 8,000 killed in the Srebrenica genocide. In many cases the victims’ remains have been found in different locations, in secondary or even tertiary graves, due to the perpetrators’ efforts to cover up the crimes. 15. This Seiko Automatic Movement watch was very popular in Bosnia in the 1980s. Several of them were found in mass graves containing victims of the genocide in Srebrenica. Because they operate through body motion (automatically coming to a halt after 36 or 48 hours of stillness), forensic scientists were able to estimate the time and date of the murders. Subsequently these watches were presented as evidence in various war tribunals. 16. Two women are dozing inside the ‘Ravne Archaeological Park’ in Visoko (Central Bosnia), above an underground labyrinth where one allegedly finds an “absence of negative radiations. There are also no mobile phone or Wifi signals. It therefore represents one of the most secure locations on the Planet” (quoting from the visitor brochure). An air of myth and circus surrounds the existence of three pyramid-shaped hills in Visoko. Since 2005, a Bosnian-American businessman, Sam Osmanagić, has claimed these hills are in fact the largest human-made ancient pyramids on Earth and that the whole area is endowed with cosmic, healing properties. His claims have been refuted by scientists, but he has succeeded in transforming the area into a unique tourist attraction. 17. A mysterious space of ‘Cosmic Unity’ at the foot of the ‘Pyramid of the Sun’ in Visoko. 18. A souvenir from Visoko, featuring the mysterious ‘Pyramid of the Sun’. 19. This is the view from the former Holiday Inn Hotel in Sarajevo. In April 1992, a referendum for an independent Bosnia was voted by a majority, but the Bosnian Serb leadership boycotted the referendum. The hotel was at that time the headquarter for Radovan Karadžić’s Serb Democratic Party (SDS) party. During the siege it became the main base for international reporters and news agencies. Across from the hotel, massive advertising panels now sit on top of the Momo &amp; Uzeir twin towers; brands pointing to today’s highly digitised and partly disembodied world, like Microsoft. Reflecting on the extensive propaganda responsible for the war – including polarization, fear mongering and lies - one cannot avoid thinking that nowadays too, our shared reality is being torn apart and question our capacities to uphold the truth. South Corean philosopher Byung-Chul Han once wrote: “We save masses of data, without keeping track of memories.” &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 20. Selma tragically stepped on an unexploded mine when she was eight years old while the family went on a walk on mount Zuč, north of Sarajevo. The war was over, they kept to the beaten track, yet de-mining had barely begun at that stage and many areas were unmarked. Selma survived the blast but lost the lower part of her left leg. She has been an advocate for mine victims and an inspiring example for young people around the world, raising awareness about the danger of landmines, about prosthetics and the crucial role of education. 21.&nbsp;A balcony in the heart of Sarajevo’s Grbavica district; former front- line area situated between the Miljacka River and ‘Zmaja od Bosne’ aka Sniper Avenue. Many roses fill Sarajevo’s gardens and parks and in-between spaces. An important symbol in Islam, Sarajevo also hosts a series of roses of a different sort, called ‘Sarajevo Roses’; the remaining circular pattern of exploded mortar shells on roads and pavements that have been filled with red paint as memorial sites. A UN report concluded that at the height of the siege, more than 3,000 shells were falling on the city each day. 22.&nbsp;This calcite formation lies deep inside the Orlovača cave, 15km east of Sarajevo (Republika Srpska). The second longest cave in BiH, it is also known for the bones of a cave bear estimated to be 16,000 years old. A waiter from a nearby café told me that his great-uncle discovered the cave when one of his sheep got lost, and that it was also famous for a strange creature inhabiting it. I asked him what kind of creature and he replied that it’s a myth, that it’s more likely to have been a homeless man or some ‘Crazy George’. 23. A mother and daughter peeking through the fences onto an incoming plane. On many days in July-August, Sarajevo’s airport is jam-packed with the extended families coming to greet emigrated Bosnians returning for the summer. Around 2 million people make up the Bosnian Diaspora. The clandestine ‘tunnel of hope’ was digged under this runway during the city’s siege. ‘‘ I tread slowly, and silently. With a vertiginous kind of attention - which then throws me into occasional moments of semi-conscious slumber. Perhaps because what is at stake is so big, in part so unconceivable… I need to be in the present; attend to things as they are. Physicality in its immense opacity, in its immense delicacy.Moving to places, listening, placing the body in a certain (dis-)position; seeing/not seeing. With the help of the machinic objectivity of the camera. There are thoughts and memories that fuel beings and haunt them, as well as their places. Capture that intangible ‘stretching’ within that which is the material world. Every image is a symbolic threshold (...) &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;[whole text] Reality Check at Konschthal | Esch * 17.05-22.06.25 <img width="2402" height="1812" width_o="2402" height_o="1812" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5179fd4764def397a6a2e8553eeca0d6c79b9be18b3201a7b76297947d264462/Screenshot-2025-06-07-at-19.12.05.png" data-mid="250116928" border="0" data-scale="62" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5179fd4764def397a6a2e8553eeca0d6c79b9be18b3201a7b76297947d264462/Screenshot-2025-06-07-at-19.12.05.png" /><img width="11648" height="8736" width_o="11648" height_o="8736" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/18c9965a1836b9709d666a3582f755e075db4de07211c093350b6c86dc4cb4d3/EMOP-133.jpg" data-mid="250116929" border="0" data-scale="62" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/18c9965a1836b9709d666a3582f755e075db4de07211c093350b6c86dc4cb4d3/EMOP-133.jpg" /> © Christoph Weber Antidotes&nbsp;at History Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovia | Sarajevo * 30.06-31.08.25 <img width="2048" height="1366" width_o="2048" height_o="1366" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/23d25821eaf971489afb4f5bdcd17399552837c94ddb3443b45ace80fa7aa2b5/513998769_1284307903698375_4987677836479887146_n.jpg" data-mid="250116947" border="0" data-scale="81" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/23d25821eaf971489afb4f5bdcd17399552837c94ddb3443b45ace80fa7aa2b5/513998769_1284307903698375_4987677836479887146_n.jpg" /> <img width="2048" height="1366" width_o="2048" height_o="1366" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/537b0f409715edaddf6029405c9a06925ef95b6f6684731f7f2714fcde853351/504430113_1284308340364998_3193815507281885893_n.jpg" data-mid="250116948" border="0" data-scale="81" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/537b0f409715edaddf6029405c9a06925ef95b6f6684731f7f2714fcde853351/504430113_1284308340364998_3193815507281885893_n.jpg" /> <img width="2048" height="1366" width_o="2048" height_o="1366" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/36c189299c2461f8dae450a4f0b4d5d08c0ee12912f95853850d80217752594e/504380340_1284307913698374_1189502357297308220_n.jpg" data-mid="250116949" border="0" data-scale="60" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/36c189299c2461f8dae450a4f0b4d5d08c0ee12912f95853850d80217752594e/504380340_1284307913698374_1189502357297308220_n.jpg" /> © 2026 Birgit Ludwig. All rights reserved. “Birgit Ludwig’s series Antidotes offers an extremely subtle but powerful view on post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina – not exclusively through the prism of historical facts, but through intimate traces embedded in the landscape, present in people and in memory. The work invites us to reflect on the space between personal and collective memory, and on the consequences that war leaves on the life of an ordinary person.” Elma Hodžic, curator https://birgitludwig.com/THE-FALL-OF-ANAMORPHOSIS Thu, 30 Jan 2020 11:08:45 +0000 Birgit Ludwig https://birgitludwig.com/THE-FALL-OF-ANAMORPHOSIS T H E&nbsp; &nbsp;F A L L&nbsp; &nbsp;O F&nbsp; &nbsp; A N A M O R P H O S I S PHOTOGRAPHS / RESEARCH | 2018 - 2021 | Palestine [selection] <img width="5000" height="3363" width_o="5000" height_o="3363" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f3ddff2c680462369f3a01360e3ee43655754917135cd1f793b97cb3badbd9b5/girlsleepsbus_o.jpg" data-mid="104163155" border="0" data-scale="55" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f3ddff2c680462369f3a01360e3ee43655754917135cd1f793b97cb3badbd9b5/girlsleepsbus_o.jpg" /> <img width="5000" height="3292" width_o="5000" height_o="3292" 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src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/905766a95bdcbc199b0ad1b045ca7093632c092736bd4383b082b85350d7b9dc/veil-in-bus-sharper.jpg" /> Locations (in alphabetical order):&nbsp;Akko, Balata refugee camp, Bethlehem, Dheisheh refugee camp, Duma (Dawabshe family house following settler arson attack), Hayfa, Al Khalil / Hebron, Areeha / Jericho, Al Quds /Jerusalem (incl. The Israel Museum, with the ‘Nano-Bible’), Kalya/Dead Sea, Nablus, Qalandia refugee camp, Ramallah, Rawabi City, Tel Aviv "(...) I am only my steps, and you are both my compass and my chasm.If I were another on the road, I would havehidden my emotions in the suitcase, so my poemwould be of water, diaphanous, white,abstract, and lightweight ... stronger than memory,and weaker than dewdrops, and I would have said:My identity is this expanse! If I were another on the road, I would have saidto the guitar: Teach me an extra string!Because the house is farther, and the road to it prettier—that’s what my new song would say. Wheneverthe road lengthens the meaning renews, and I become two on this road: I ... and another!" Mahmoud Darwish "If I Were Another", "The Butterfly's Burden" |1992 © 2025 Birgit Ludwig. 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data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ef26de6b324e1db9fbf00877db07446dd61edd709a4d2bbd28fe88867fdbc7a3/G-windscreen-flash_38.jpg" data-mid="104163382" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ef26de6b324e1db9fbf00877db07446dd61edd709a4d2bbd28fe88867fdbc7a3/G-windscreen-flash_38.jpg" /> - Seeing through the absence of something - (...) A scene is the place where reality potentially becomes fiction. I am interested in that very passage. It seems to be the place and moment of an announcement, that something will somehow (slowly or quickly) become intelligible via its very particular and immanent approach, through the thickness or sparseness of imagery and language.Taking pictures is often an exploration of the distance and angle towards the epicenter of an event or of a protagonist’s inner motives. Sometimes this is grasped by a constellation of objects that carve out an absence, that indicate something that has happened, or that might happen.I try to grasp the crystallization of a tension, of an antagonism or encounter. There are choreographies of bodies, or objects, in a state of imbalance and availability towards their exterior. There are glimpses of bodies that stage – without knowing it – their inwardness and their outwardness.Materializing invisible and fleeting windows, moments that contain intangible, janus-faced partitions, disturbing the air both ways, stirring up coordinates and senses, or putting time to a halt. Clearing, for a sign…Sometimes there are those accidents of light, when it clashes with matter in the acuteness of a stain.Between incandescence and blackness… I like gravel, shimmering traps and the speedways of fine particles, beaming at the missed encounter of glossy bodies.What is visible is only the smoke of a fire; shadows are burning. Infinite fire. Distant fire. Intimate distance... | Batumi, 08/2015 https://birgitludwig.com/rivers-of-an-unreal-blue Wed, 17 May 2023 12:10:26 +0000 Birgit Ludwig https://birgitludwig.com/rivers-of-an-unreal-blue Coming soon. R&nbsp; &nbsp; I&nbsp; &nbsp; V&nbsp; &nbsp; E&nbsp; &nbsp; R&nbsp; &nbsp; S&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;O&nbsp; &nbsp; F&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;A&nbsp; &nbsp; N &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;U&nbsp; &nbsp; N&nbsp; &nbsp; R&nbsp; &nbsp; E&nbsp; &nbsp; A&nbsp; &nbsp; L&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;B&nbsp; &nbsp; L&nbsp; &nbsp; U&nbsp; &nbsp; E J O U R N A LBosnia and Herzegovina [2021- 2024] prologue: I tread slowly, and silently. With a vertiginous kind of attention - which then throws me into occasional moments of semi-conscious slumber. Perhaps because what is at stake is so big, in part so unconceivable… I need to be in the present; attend to things as they are. Physicality in its immense opacity, in its immense delicacy.Moving to places, listening, placing the body in a certain (dis-)position; seeing/not seeing. With the help of the machinic objectivity of the camera. There are thoughts and memories that fuel beings and haunt them, as well as their places. Capture that intangible ‘stretching’ within that which is the material world. Every image is a symbolic threshold; the encounter of meaning with the ‘hard’ world. Although a photograph is very close to the hard world still, like an impress of its skin, moulded by light. A cut out, and now a foreign body, not that foreign-looking, but estranged. And I’m thinking of the ‘window’ –that is the actual technical term– sawn out of a bone, which is what Dragana does in the 'International Commission for Missing Persons' laboratory in Tuzla, to send these ‘windows’ into unique and disappeared existences to the Netherlands for DNA extraction. In this photographic enterprise here, no coding, rather a kind of discreet forensic poetry.Silence carries so much. I know because I heard. Because I listened to some people speak. As they told me, tried to articulate with those other bones that are of language, the facts as much as the ineffable that inhabits them and their places. I tread carefully because the intimate needs a sensitive environment to breathe, to give away and unfold its wisdom, to invent its very own language connected to a truth that is raw and singular. It needs gentleness for it not to be patched over by ready-made formulas and defensive barriers of armoured identifications. It is in these breathing cracks of being that language and connections re-invent themselves. We talked about that, with Amela and Ayla, as we sat on a hill perched over Sarajevo. Holding on. To reality, to others, and to those who are gone... For the relatives of the forcefully disappeared, it is primordial to find their remains, because it is a proof of their existence. Concretely, symbolically, legally. Now 30 years after the war, around 8.000 missing persons are still unaccounted for [...]