MIGRATE

“MIGRATE” , Installation: curtains, wood and led, 2019

CURATED BY: ELISE LAMMER & PETRIT HALILAJ “MIGRATE” — is an installation where one can experience migration. This experience is more of a reflection than an invitation. The immigrant has so many questions and uncertainties that finding the door of salvation seems like searching for light at the deepest of darkness. Complete darkness which is created by the curtains.

This country needs to be liberated and built, its people need to rise on the level of other peoples, and for that we need a war that its sons and daughters must wage. If the latter choose to emigrate, things in this country will get even worse. So, through these photographs, I want to present the work I did for my first exhibition, which was a group exhibition. But... you have to go through it to fully comprehend the work. You cannot emigrate from being human.

CRITICS —

Tinka Kurti, poet, Vienna

Both in terms of addressing a certain reality, as well as in terms of realization, the work of art ‘Migrate’ touches the heart of time. People migrate, hide, flee, want to return, can not, people live and die today – migration. Migration is the line of infusion that keeps us alive or the last breath […]

Arbër Zaimi, philosopher, Tirana

Diluted selves The pandemic came after, masks were already there. What could be a face, if not a palimpsest made of masks. A mask, a self, many masks, many selves, underwriting each-other, asimilated into layers of the human. I am not indivisible, independent or sovereign…

Arlind Manxhuka, philosophy scholar, activist

Self-exposure It is usually man’s attempt to find consciousness. His life is with deviations and approximations with himself, sometimes kills and sometimes caresses the conscience. Its selfs guardian. When self does not meet the consciousness, then the conscious comes. Although belatedly and with many consequences, it is there, to kill our minds again. To enlighten […]