Si Okarina e Runikut
Artist:
Petrit Halilaj
Date:
2014
Medium:
Sculpture
Materials:
Brass, Ocarina, Glass
Collection:
Lafayette anticipations - Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin
Petrit Halilaj's work is nourished by an intimate, memorial and anthropological relationship with the land of his birth. Kosovo represents the material of a work that he constructs with the intensity of resilience handed to those
who are displaced by history. Each of his productions carries the story of a time soon to pass, of a space and a culture in mutation. Si Okarina e Runikut is both a work and a musical instrument. Made thanks to the teaching given to the artist by Shaqir Hoti, one of the last Kosovar makers, Petrit Halilaj's ocarina is a symbol of Kosovo's own culture: made of clay since the Neolithic period, this typical instrument is one of the idiosyncrasies of his country that the artist brings to our knowledge and our attention. Equipped with a brass link, the instrument can be suspended, in the grip of the wind that will activate this work, which carries ancestral knowledge transmitted by oral culture. Far from depicting the torments of his country, Petrit Halilaj's works show fragments of his culture, eclipsed in our memories and representations by the conflicts of the 1990s.
who are displaced by history. Each of his productions carries the story of a time soon to pass, of a space and a culture in mutation. Si Okarina e Runikut is both a work and a musical instrument. Made thanks to the teaching given to the artist by Shaqir Hoti, one of the last Kosovar makers, Petrit Halilaj's ocarina is a symbol of Kosovo's own culture: made of clay since the Neolithic period, this typical instrument is one of the idiosyncrasies of his country that the artist brings to our knowledge and our attention. Equipped with a brass link, the instrument can be suspended, in the grip of the wind that will activate this work, which carries ancestral knowledge transmitted by oral culture. Far from depicting the torments of his country, Petrit Halilaj's works show fragments of his culture, eclipsed in our memories and representations by the conflicts of the 1990s.
Exhibition
Yes but the sea is attached to the Earth and it never floats around in space. The stars would turn off and what about my planet?
Galerie Kamel Mennour, Paris (France)
from 18 Oct to 22 Nov 2014
Galerie Kamel Mennour, Paris (France)
from 18 Oct to 22 Nov 2014