Witness Objects interrogates the capacity of historical artefacts to transition from passive remnants of trauma into active instruments of documentation. Developed in collaboration with the History Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, this research-led project temporarily transforms wartime relics—including improvised survival stoves and shrapnel-damaged military helmets from the Siege of Sarajevo—into functional pinhole cameras. By utilizing structural fractures, such as bullet entries, as light-gathering apertures, the work repurposes the physical architecture of violence to record contemporary landscapes once defined by conflict.

The resulting monochromatic, distorted imagery bridges historical state violence with the contemporary topography of collective memory. This methodology employs a strict ethos of slow photography, demanding an intentional, tactile engagement with objects that bore witness to systemic crisis. By subverting the traditional function of museum archives, the project challenges the stagnation of historical memory and addresses the profound limitations of official documentation. Ultimately, the work repositions these modified relics not as static monuments to past suffering, but as surveillance apparatuses that continue to scrutinize the cyclical nature of human warfare, exploring the complex boundary between historical erasure and active reconciliation.