Art as a Dialogue with Nature: Take Care of Me!

ART · ECOLOGY · SPIRITUALITY

In a time when the world is becoming a place of overwhelming noise and nature often remains a silent backdrop to human ambition, the exhibition “Take Care of Me!” offers a space of quiet — a space where art restores meaning to vision, attention, and responsibility.
Here, the artworks do not merely speak about the environment, but with it.
They do not admonish — they invite.

In both material and form — whether created from recycled remnants or born from silent inner contemplation — the same thought is present: that the human being is not placed above nature, but among it.
Like a lamp meant to illuminate, not to burn.

The artists gathered in this exhibition come from different parts of the world, yet they are connected by the same thread: the sense that the world around us is not here to be conquered, but to be recognized.
In their works, nature is not a subject — it is a living interlocutor.

This exhibition does not choose one face of art.
It embraces many: aesthetic, spiritual, symbolic, and engaged.
It is not reduced to material, form, or technique. It rests on a feeling — on the trust that art, when rooted in awareness, can be a quiet yet enduring force of connection — an answer to noise, to the rupture between humanity and the world, to the loss of measure and deeper meaning.
That aesthetics can nurture, not dominate.

That the artistic act, when performed with responsibility, becomes a space of inner ecology — care not only for nature, but for the soul.
For, as academician Dr. Enes Karić wrote:

“The earth is not merely the ground beneath our feet; it is part of the celestial breath in which a person recognizes themselves — if they become still and listen.”

That thought forms the invisible backbone of this exhibition — not as ornament, but as a quiet foundation linking the works, the gazes, and the presences within.

“Water teaches us how to flow without losing purity. In every drop resounds the voice of Revelation: that all which lives, lives by grace.”

“Take Care of Me!” is a tremor, a prayer, a reminder.
A reminder that every drop of water is a lesson, every tree a memory, every silence an invitation to return to the Source.
Not to the past — but to what is original within us, to the human being who knows how to see without needing to possess, who knows that “nothing is ours except the moment of awareness.”

Therefore, this exhibition is neither an act of aesthetic resistance nor an illustration of an ecological message.
It is a space — both inner and shared.
A place where responsibility does not impose itself but naturally arises.
It calls us not to act through slogans, but through inner attentiveness —
to return to ourselves, not out of a need for isolation, but for presence.

In such a gaze, art becomes not only an aesthetic expression, but an act of care —
care for what endures, though not immediately visible.
And precisely there, in that attentiveness, preservation begins.

The exhibition Take Care of Me! was held at Gazi Husrev-beg’s Hanikah in Sarajevo, from October 16 to 23, 2025.
The participating artists came from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, India, Japan, the Netherlands, Serbia and Spain.