Bosnia-Herzegovina

It is an eternal human need to know the world around us through categorisation, organisation, calculation. This is how the sea is divided into latitudes and longitudes, coordinates that are drawn with regular lines on nautical charts in the form of quadrants; distances at sea are measured in nautical miles, speed is expressed in knots, and the direction of movement is determined by a compass. The rose of winds is also connected to this, and winds are man’s greatest help and greatest threat at sea. Man took the measure of the sea. In the literary tradition, Fernand Braudel and Predrag Matvejević described the Mediterranean and defined the hinterland of the coast as a permanent place of the Mediterranean spirit. This project aims to affirm the Mediterranean and maritime identity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. At the same time, the metal elements that make up the sculptural whole were forged in Kreševo, which is the heart of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s thousand-year blacksmithing tradition. Thus the sea connected the coast and the inland.