Men don't cry - Hannes Jung

The exhibition „Men don’t cry“ presents works created between 2017 and 2024 in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In his artistic exploration, Jung focuses on a subject that has long been taboo: sexualized violence against men during the Bosnian War from 1992 to 1995. Hannes Jung examines how individual and social traumas continue to affect people. Among other things, he is interested in the corporeal and emotional traces that violence can leave behind and how such experiences inscribe themselves into individual and collective self-understandings. For many years, he has been driven by the question of the effects of war on society. In subtle black-and-white photographs, Jung combines documentary research with a poetically dense visual language that relates what is visible to what can barely be spoken of. “Men don’t cry” explores conventional notions of masculinity, questioning them without codifying the experiences he was told. The images allow masculinity, vulnerability, irritation, and hope to coexist in order to draw attention to what remains.