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All That Is Solid (2021) by Sema Bekirovic is an outdoor installation created for Into Nature Drenthe. The work consists of a 140×140 cm ball made of 2,300 kg of sugar, glucose, and food coloring, tested and approved by Staatsbosbeheer ecologists. Placed in a nature reserve, the sugar ball slowly transforms as it is eroded by rain and consumed by insects. The piece explores impermanence, the interaction between human-made materials and natural processes, and the passage of time in ecological environments.

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All that is Solid

In Of Fire, Sema Bekirovic uses a thermal imaging camera to film artist Xu XueQin sculpting a clay dragon. The shifting heat patterns reveal an intimate energy exchange between artist and artwork

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Of Fire

still from the 16 mm film wonderturner by sema bekirovic. an art film about the practise of panplaying or tepsijanj in bosnia and herzegovina

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Wonder Turner

Übersetzungen 03 (Brecht) (2020) by Sema Bekirovic is a video installation developed during the Dialogfelder residency in Chemnitz, Germany. The work stems from a workshop in which the artist invited passersby to trace figures on a transparent plastic sheet placed over the GDR-era relief Lobgedichte, created by various artists and based on Bertolt Brecht’s praise poems. The act of tracing becomes a gesture of reinterpretation and dialogue—an interaction between past and present, individual and collective memory. The piece is part of a broader series of collaborative works exploring translation, historical continuity, and the reactivation of socialist-era public art.

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Übersetzungen

Sculptures for Ants (2019) by Sema Bekirovic and Jan-Pieter Karper — installation and workshop creating miniature sculptures for ants during the Into The Great Wide Open festival.

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Sculptures for the Ants

The Radiance of Sensible Heat (02) (2016) by Sema Bekirovic — three-channel thermal video installation showing a hand transferring heat to plaster sculptures at the Rijksakademie.

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The Radiance of Sensible Heat

Men of Steel, Men of Stone (2017–ongoing) by Sema Bekirovic — 16mm film showing the artist washing and covering statues of Dutch colonial heroes with soap and mud.

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Men of Steel, Men of Stone

The Others (2008–2011) by Sema Bekirovic — three-hour video showing forest animals eating a picnic, filmed with a surveillance camera.

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The Others

Borrowed Time, HD video (11 min, 2014/2015) by Sema Bekirovic. The video explores a single, prolonged breath, starring freediver Jorrit Bruinsma.

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Borrowed Time

sema bekirovic flying carpet

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Flying Carpet

Event Horizon HD video, 4 min, 2010. A landscape is gradually engulfed by an approaching black hole.

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Event Horizon

Grid, by sema bekirovic SD video, 19 min, 2006. Three snails crawl across a drawing of a grid on paper, making their own slime-trail-drawing in the process

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Grid

Fire Sequence, by sema bekirovic HD video, 5:55 min, 2013. A flame is “passed on” through a series of small objects, ranging from reproductions of paintings to miniature furniture.

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Fire Sequence

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Kalverstraat

Shoes HD video, 1:20 min, 2015. Shoes, sema bekirovic HD video, 1:20 min, 2015. A pair of shoes is exposed to a chemical reaction (combustion of mercury(II) thiocyanate) , causing them to sprout a yellowish growth. It looks as though the shoes are trying (and failing) to “grow” a wearer.

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Shoes

Untitled (2009–2010) by sema bekirovic, is a short video in which ants carry small letters cut from newspapers, arranging them by chance into fleeting, accidental words.

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Untitled (Ants)

Between My Head And The Sky HDV video, 1:36, by sema, Registration of a knife in free fall. comissioned by MTV and MOMA PS1

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Between My Head And The Sky

How to stop falling by sema bekirovic HD video, 1:30 min, 2007/2008 Large styrofoam letters dropped off the top of an office building.

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How to stop falling

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Book

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Stuff

sema bekirovic, birds of prey, video, 2005

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Birds of Prey