Velma Babić works across photography, video, performance, drawing, sound, and spatial practice. Using her own body as material and spatial presence, particularly in performance and photography, she develops works through gesture, repetition, and the unstable relation between body, space, and perception.
Her practice unfolds through minimal actions — covering, carrying, sweeping, obscuring — repeated until bodily presence itself begins to shift between visibility and disappearance, resistance and vulnerability. Bodies appear fragmented, partially concealed, absorbed into landscapes, reduced to traces, or suspended within temporary spatial situations. Rather than approaching the body as a stable identity or symbol, her works remain attentive to how historical violence, displacement, and social inscription shape female experience.
Rooted in the historical aftermath of the Yugoslav Wars, her work engages with the fragile entanglement of personal and collective histories without reducing them to direct representation. Her biography unfolds across multiple geographies, including Germany, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Colombia, and the United States — experiences that continue to inform her sensitivity toward fragmentation, continuity, migration, and the persistence of embodied memory.
Landscapes, transitional zones, and temporary structures function less as backgrounds than as active spatial conditions that absorb, fracture, and continuously reshape the figure within them. Sound and material interventions extend the work beyond visibility, creating unstable relations between bodily presence, memory, distance, and historical tension.
At the same time, drawing becomes a space in which personal and historical experience condense into reduced and often ambiguous visual forms. Emerging from reflections on the disintegration of home and the latent threat of violence surrounding female existence during periods of social collapse, these works do not unfold narratively.
Her works operate with reduced means — minimal in form, yet attentive to fragility, endurance, and persistence.