Vullnet Jakupi (b.2000), is a multidisciplinary artist from Prishtina, Kosovo who works around mediums of Installation and video art. Jakupi’s work is often rooted in places where history and personal narrative meet, where silence carries the weight of what was once said or done. He is interested in the traces left behind: the abandoned objects, the reconfigured architecture, the shared glances of those who remember. Through these fragments, he searches for a language that speaks of resilience, dislocation, and the quiet strength of survival. On the other hand, creating art in Kosovo for him means working within a landscape that is still healing, still redefining itself. In that process, he sees not just pain, but potential.
During the INFRARED residency, Jakupi will develop and finalize his project “Somewhere, Within, I Return.” The project investigates abandoned spaces in and around Prishtina, focusing on the plants that have gradually reclaimed them. Reviving the herbarium as both a scientific and nostalgic practice, he will organize collective visits where participants gather and study plant life that has emerged in these sites.
Through shared walks and storytelling, the project shifts attention toward how nature reclaims space in the absence of human intervention, reflecting on ecological processes that unfold independently. Participants will create personalized herbariums accompanied by narratives that connect memory, space, and nature.
