Šejla Kamerić: Perfect Tense

Perfect Tense, the most extensive exhibition of Šejla Kamerić’s work presented in Slovenia to date, explores the pervasive consequences of continuous war and their entanglement with everyday life. Through a selection of explicitly political works, the artist unravels complex relationships between documentation, memory, and empathy, while questioning collective responsibility in times of ongoing conflict. The exhibition unfolds as a sequence of mirrored reflections, in which spaces, words, and artworks echo one another. Presented at Cukrarna Gallery concurrently yet independently from Adrian Paci’s solo exhibition Waves and Gazes, the exhibition catalouge Perfect Tense forms a subtle dialogue of contrasts, echoed also in the design of their catalog covers: Perfect Tense features a silver print on a black background, while Waves and Gazes is printed in black on a silver background. 

Published by Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana / Cukrarna Gallery
Represented by: Blaž Peršin
Cukrarna Gallery represented by: Alenka Gregorič
Editors: Alenka Gregorič & Šejla Kamerić
Assistance with the coordination of the texts: Lenka Đorojević, Neža Vengust
Slovenian translation: Marjana Karer
English translation: Arven Šakti Kralj
Photos: Blaž Gutman, DK [ pgs. 76, 84–85, 109, 111, 115]
Design and layout: Ajdin Bašić
Printed by: Cicero d.o.o., Ljubljana
Print run: 400
Number of pages: 176
August 2025