TO UN-BECOME is a multimedia project that revisits the war in Yugoslavia and its lasting impact two decades later. In April 2017, Saša Rajšić walked more than 400 kilometres, retracing—this time in reverse—the route his family and other refugees once took during "Operation Storm." He walked from his first refuge shelter in Serbia to his former home in Croatia. Along the way, he passed through towns where ruined homes and collapsed walls still stood as reminders of the war. These sights stirred long-buried memories and emotions, shaping both real and imagined reflections of the past.
The journey blurred the line between memory and evidence, creating a kind of “visual noise” that defined this experience. In 2017, the border between Serbia and Croatia again marked a site of human struggle: thousands of refugees from the Middle East were being denied entry to the European Union and forced to remain in refugee camps in Serbia—sometimes beside Serbian refugees still displaced after more than twenty years.
TO UN-BECOME, 2018
Publication
Saša Rajšić and Vitalis Neufeld
Softcover
8 x 10" (203,2 x 254 mm)
108 pp
42 b&w photos
Self-published
Printed in Canada
Edition of 100
Cambridge ON, Spring 2018




TO UN-BECOME, 2017
HD video
Duration: 15 min 20 sec
Vitalis Neufeld
video, editing, and post-production
Bojan Stanković
sound and original music
Full video available upon request

COLLABORATORS
Vitalis Neufeld - photography, video, editing, post-production
Bojan Stanković - sound, original music










