At the first glance at Elma’s paintings you see a colorful, playful scene. But if you look longer you see the horrors of war. Elma: “I use a lot of tanks, weapons or grenades or something like that, but I want to hide them a bit. I try to depict the horror of war in a different way with the sweetness. We are used to zap the TV away if there is a situation of war, because it is confrontational I want people to think about what is going on in the world, if in a quiet moment, when you look at a painting, you think: what do I think of this, what happens.”
Bosnian Elma incorporates gruesome war experiences with lovely color in her art
