Jan Kempenaers: Sarajevo # 1, 1999
Photograph on aluminium, 180 x 245 cm
Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp

This panoramic colour photograph shows the landscape of Sarajevo (former Yugoslavia) shortly after the siege. The foreground and background intermingle. The details are identical in scale. Kempenaers leads the gaze of the viewer from the whole to the detail and vice versa.