"A PLACE WITHOUT WALLS"

 

What place do we have as a spectator in front of the emotional crisis of others that generates inarticulate gestures, scratches and screams?

It's embarrassing for me to have the National art gallery of Kosovo so close to my faculty in Pristina but never stop to look at it just for a little while, believe me I'm aware of how much I've lost because I've never seen the art gallery in my life before, but now I was given the opportunity and the will to see for myself what is there. What attracts people to go there. There were many interesting things that made me think deeply about what the artists wanted to say with their creations.

While I was walking in the gallery there were these wired paintings of deformed people who in the first sight they might seem as cartoon or maybe, I’m just speaking for myself here. These very characteristics deformations, which take up the codes of a comic strip, are not a caricatured approach or an exaggeration. On the contrary, they underline fragility. Through the flattening of the subjects on canvas this rubbing technique that requires little paint, emerges the poverty of the body seen as a face.

Also in the exhibition were exposed paintings of a particular artist that caught my eyes. I was really confused to be honest, but really invested too. In my opinion she was trying to say that it doesn’t matter how you are, you are beautiful regardless and anything is possible, even if you are disabled or deformed and think that you are a hopeless case you are not. You will be hopeless if you stay and do nothing. Also the photos seem to be a very important tool in her future paintings. The characters painted in her paintings have a deformed face and body and these two elements even seem disconnected as if they no longer belong to each other. The faces are no longer reduced to their plastic form.

Also I saw some other pictures that left me impressed because the author was trying to say that there is a dreamlike atmosphere in these works, which captured a reality in waiting, suspended, awaiting an event. There is something austere about these large black and white images. The photographs document a still, threatening, potentially hostile world. The objects are like sleeping wild animals that can wake up at any moment.

 

I think it was worth my time to stop by and take a good look at the things that we see almost every day but never put a deep thought to it. It is sad how these people felt when they left their homeland. These creations also made so happy knowing that people haven’t forgotten their homeland even though they are far away. As I saw they were trying to say in the most beautiful way how there is not a specific love language. Love can be shown by small gestures or moments that we share with the people we love and especially with those who you had while growing in a country such as ours. My time in the art gallery was quite interesting to say the least. I will not lie I was quite lost and confused the first time that I entered the place because I didn’t know what to do or were to go but thankfully someone helped me there. As my first time in my life being there I believe that this experience was really wonderful.