Curator: Blerta Hoçia
Participating artists: Arrita Katona, Rena Begolli, Endrit Jashanica, Blertë Hashani, Blend Bytyqi, Zana Begolli
Looking at nature for a moment and the way it operates, we notice that there are some invisible, as well as temporary and permanent habitats. They are as extensions to the building and this is why probably they are not immediately recognized. In the case of nests – these bird habitats- the intervention is of exquisite delicacy.
According to French philosopher Gaston Bachelard “a nest – and this we immediately understand – is something temporary, but still makes us dream of safety. Why this uncertainty that is clearly evident does not stop this kind of dreaming?
” The word nest itself suggests something warm, protected and safe, and something protected and safe is thought to be also well hidden.
All of these characteristics that are met with the concept of nest. It is there, easily accessible but at the same time invisible to the inattentive eye. So the nests remain something that is added to another space without being noticed, under the same spirit of invisibleness with which are transformed also city spaces. This exhibition unfolds in a form of intervention in a space, respectively in spaces that are habitats or business places. Spaces that, as often happens in our cities, are small or big additions being attached to those already existing in a nightmare of habitats of real survival or of construction greed. Over time, these spaces with the physiognomy of temporary have been so well assimilated by the city that they have become invisible and irrevocably permanent. Our intervention consists in identifying those spaces that are significantly redundant. These sites will be transformed, during the intervention time, into exhibition spaces giving the artists of this and the upcoming editions of residency the opportunity to explore those parts of the added city. Isn’t life itself perceived in it as excessive, overburdened and out of breath? The works of young artists who are placed in nests – additions, address precisely these themes and above all they can be seen as a manifestation of the right to exist, where the temporary and permanent lay in the lap of the struggle for survival. They interact within the fabricated settlement that is exploding from the tension of opposition and the result of this explosion is a big bang of buildings, illegal additions and appropriated public spaces.
