Selma Selman - Sleeping Guards

This exhibition catalogue documents Sleeping Guards, a major presentation by Selma Selman, the Bosnian Roma artist and activist known for her powerful multidisciplinary practice. Working across performance, installation, film, and drawing, Selman explores gender roles, labor, material value, and discrimination, drawing from her upbringing in a Roma scrap metal-dealing family during and after the Bosnian War.

Central works such as Motherboards transform discarded computers into performances and sculptural objects, reclaiming waste materials as symbols of resistance and regeneration. Through destruction and renewal, aggression and vulnerability, Selman challenges power structures while asserting feminist and Roma identity.

Richly illustrated, this catalogue offers insight into a socially engaged contemporary art practice at the intersection of activism, memory, and transformation.