Photograph (2008), giclée print, 100 × 70 cm, Facebook page screenshot

For me, side effect is not merely a consequence, but a process that is difficult to perceive and often remains hidden: something that continues to live on, shape, and destroy long after the original event has passed. I was deeply disturbed and outraged by the fact that convicted war criminal Radovan Karadžić — once out of sight — was able to exist for years behind another identity, almost anonymously, while the consequences of the destruction he had left behind continued to unfold. The notion of side effect thus appears to me not only in a personal or psychological sense, but also in a historical and social dimension: as the recognition that the real consequences of violence often emerge not in the moment of the act itself, but much later, almost imperceptibly. I became particularly preoccupied with the dark mechanism through which alcohol and drugs could function as catalysts within a destructive system — as a side effect whose traces far outlive the event itself. The Facebook page of his alter ego, the alternative healer Dragan Dabić, disappeared a few days later — this screenshot may have been one of the last traces of it.