History is a settlement within a community that establishes the way the community remembers past events. It serves an unprecedented role in organising and maintaining the state. Relying on history means creating an order of the present time, rooted in the past. It can be constructed from scratch when there’s a need for that. As an ethnic group with an organized state, the nation, among its constitutive features, includes sharing the same historical and cultural conditions. Makeshift is a project on rewriting history in Bosnia and Hercegovina, focusing on the Bosnian War's mass atrocities, places where they were committed, and their erased context.
In most cases, places used to keep, torture, rape, and murder civilians were renovated after the war and restored to their former purpose of public utility buildings. History is a collectively set narration, so it can be rewritten from scratch, to omit things that had to be forgotten. Given the fact that new historical narrations now conceal a vital part of events of the Bosnian War of 1992-1995 to maintain the integrity of a newly founded society of divided ethnic groups, it’s extremely important to analyse this conflict, the reasons behind it and the aftermath of it. The entire landscape bears contamination that part of newly written history wants to erase. By common saying, that’s winners who write history.