Installation view, Untitled (double), 2022, Adornment | Artifact, Band of Vices, organized by Transformative Arts, curated by jill moniz.
queerness and craft
My research and practice over the last couple of years have focused on weaving voices like mine into a culture that has historically erased and ostracized LGBTQI+ people. In confronting the history of my birth nation, Albania, while grappling with assimilation as an immigrant in the United States, I seek to build bridges between place and time while simultaneously disrupting existing conventions. For me, this liminal space of double consciousness, a sense of belonging to either land, runs through each thread of each qilim. Work from this series appeared in Biddy’s Garden at Transformative Arts in Los Angeles from February 18–April 9, 2022.
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