Blue butterfly in search of a plant, ink-jet print on postcard paper, 13x18 cm, 2020 

During the Srebrenica genocide in 1995, mass graves were concealed beneath layers of soil and local vegetation. Over time, Artemisia vulgaris emerged in these sites, a plant associated with nitrogen-rich ground conditions. The blue butterfly Polyommatus icarus, which feeds on this plant, became part of an ecological chain through which buried locations were later traced.

In Blue Butterfly in Search of a Plant, these entangled relations between violence, ecology, and detection are translated into image. Butterflies rendered in oil paint were converted into digital prints — a passage between material and mediated registers that the work does not resolve so much as hold in suspension.

Printed on postcard paper, the works are designed for circulation. They shift from image to object, and from object to a form of transmission that passes through viewers, exchange, and mobility rather than archival containment.