Thomas Nolf
Peculiar Artifacts in Bosnia & Herzegovina – an imaginary exhibition
€25,00
17 × 24 cm, 176 p, ills colour / b&w, paperback w/ dust jacket
ISBN 9789490800642
design: 6′56″
language: English / Bosnian
ISBN 9789490800642
design: 6′56″
language: English / Bosnian
edition of 600
May 2017
May 2017
The book is the result of a 4-year project in Bosnia-and-Herzegovina where Thomas Nolf came across the existence of pyramids, stone spheres and other peculiar artifacts, discovered by Semir Osmanagich and his team. Aiming to draw an alternative biography that counteracts the post-war disillusion, Nolf photographed, intervened and ultimately tried to pedestal the phenomena as a history to believe in.
The work of Thomas Nolf (°1986) examines the ways in which national myths are formed, instrumentalised and frequently suppressed. Confounding fiction and documentary, fabled event and scientific enigma, his work looks into how nation-building ideology influences modes of storytelling, and vice versa.