The Museum describes these conditions of warfare in communal backgrounds by using transitional spaces and television screens in Union Station’s pedestrian pathways, representing those same background details to the point where these fragments begin to prick our memories of news clips and memories of our daily settings. At first, in this subtle museum, people would unknowingly pass through the pedestrian tunnels, unlikely to make a connection between the images and patterns that line the floors and walls and the acts of violence they are associated with. Over time, however, the installations begin to connect to the many news clips, photos and video loops of war on television screens in the tunnels.
left: Novka Cosovic, Modified Architectural Graphic Standards, Swimming and Diving Pools.
below:The Museum ,The pool: There is a hotel in Pale, Republika Srpska. During the civil war, the hotel’s pool was used to store dead bodies of civilians and soldiers.The bodies kept piling up; there was no hospital on site. So they brought the lifeless bodies into the empty pool. Today, it is used as a pool, again. Time and people has changed, but the tiles are still there. Twenty years later, CNN made a documentary on the continuing Syrian Civil War.There was a particular scene: the rebels were swimming in a pool, enjoying the splashes.The pool is located in an abandoned residential home.
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