Šejla Kamerić was featured in the first LUKOWA Art Collection Showcase, on view from October 5th until November 30th at Kramgasse 2, Lucerne.
Seila Kameric’s art operates as sort of an agent, or better yet a mirror, finished in the observer’s verbal or emotional reaction. Even if visually direct and presenting itself as simple or humble, her work is multilayered, touching on feminism, relativism, capitalism, fairness, justice, history, motherhood, sex, love. Works from the ‘Hooked’ series refer simultaneously to spiderwebs (a soft homage to Louise Bourgeois) and the Balkans-originated crochets, part of a common household decoration that belongs to the ‘lowbrow. Sejla exports the crochet in its exaggerated, enlarged form to the West, Playing with the value determined by the international art market, and a monumentality that is not necessarily heavy as much as it is expansive and tactical.