Aida Šehović

ŠTO TE NEMA Foundation is a participatory memorial initiative responding to the denial of the 1995 Srebrenica Genocide—in which more than 8,372 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were systematically killed during the Bosnian War—and to the wider failure of post-conflict societies to hold onto accountability once the trials end. At the centre of its artistic practice is the fildžan, a small, handleless porcelain cup used to serve traditional Bosnian coffee. By moving an ordinary object out of the home and into public space, the initiative transforms a private, everyday ritual into a shared act of collective remembrance and civic responsibility.

From 2006 to 2020, the foundation created a nomadic monument that was reconstructed annually in a different city across fifteen international iterations. The monument grew as it traveled, cup by cup, with donations from survivors and diaspora communities, until its final gathering in 2020 at the Srebrenica Memorial Center, where more than 8,372 fildžani had been collected, each representing one of the victims.

Today, the foundation continues to expand this relational, truth-telling practice into new material and educational dimensions. Its ongoing work encompasses Spatium Memoriae, an interactive archive structurally modeled on the storage infrastructure used to track missing persons; the documentary film Where Have You Been; Cups of Memory, a collaboration with architect Arna Mačkić examining permanent forms for ephemeral rituals; and Monument LAB educational workshops. Ultimately, the initiative seeks to activate a “justice imagination,” enabling communities to collectively envision and enact avenues of repair where legal proceedings reach their structural limits.