THE APPLE OF MY EYE 1974
New media installation, 2025
An installation reflecting on the environmental and social impact of Europe’s tallest chimney, built on centuries of coal exploitation. Rooted in personal memory of childhood illness caused by toxic air, the work transforms this industrial monument into a site of collective trauma, resilience, and ecological reflection.
THE PERFECT WHITE CISGENDER WOMAN
Short film, 6:00, 2022
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A satirical black-and-white sketch observing the rituals of a middle-class woman, critiquing gender roles through a pseudo-scientific lens. Exhibits the monotony of privilege and societal expectations via voice-over commentary and detached performance.
PRIVATE THOUGHTS IN PUBLIC CRISIS
Book/Installation, 2021
A collection of debossed texts that reflect on political crises, privilege, and personal observation, including reflections on Palestine. Includes digital expansion via QR code, inviting public contributions.
CHIMNEY SWEEPING
Performance, 20:00, 2020
Performer intervenes with legal definitions of domestic violence using personal narratives. Produced by Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina (Serbia), critiques the bureaucratic treatment of trauma.
APARTMENT 102
Video 03:40, 2019
Explores intergenerational trauma and war memory in BiH. Moves from monochrome to color as the artist claims a voice against the silence imposed by trauma.
NENA
FILM ESSAY, 09:45, 2021
Centers on Zahida, a woman who lived through WWII and the 1990s war in BiH. The film critiques capitalism, oligarchy, and the erasure of regional identity through her personal story.
SILENT OBSERVER
Video, 09:45, 2017
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Produced by KulturKontakt and Austrian Chancellery, AT.
A voice-only monologue on migration, gender, and personal responsibility. Highlights the tension between personal and collective experiences in a post-migrant identity.
ZAHIDA IS A FEMINIST
Photography series, 10x prints on cotton, 70x50cm, 2016
Challenges the orientalist and patriarchal framing of Balkan feminism. Gives voice to marginalised women erased by both local and Western feminist narratives. In permanent collection of Wien Museum.
CROSSING BORDERS
Video Performance, 04:53, 2015
Appropriation of John Baldessari, I’m Making Art, 1971
A performative video using repetition of “I am a Muslim” to explore identity, shame, and empowerment through visual and vocal assertion. Examines religious and ethnic labeling within nationalist contexts.