UNTITLED #2 (RANA E HEDHUN)
Lek M. Gjeloshi, 2016, 7’
Untitled #2 opens on a place known as ‘Rana e hedhun’ (in English, ‘Strewn Sand’), a zone of the north-western Adriatic coastline characterized by a suddenly oblique alignment of the sand that distinguishes and separates it from the surrounding environment. This is also the starting point for the video with an uncut black and white sequence in which the flow is marked only by the presence of a wayfarer and the camera shot which follows the oblique plane of the dune rather than the natural line of the sea, completely overturning its horizon line as well.
Lek M. Gjeloshi (1987, AL) is an Albanian artist who lives and works in Shkodër, Albania. His multimedia practice explores the effects of alienation in spaces of limbo.
His works have been shown in several solo exhibitions and in various institutions including Manifesta 14, Villa Romana, École Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, Stacion – Center for Contemporary Art Prishtina, Kunsthalle West, Bazament Art Space, Autostrada Biennale, Manifattura Tabacchi, Galeria Zeta, National Gallery of Art in Albania and Public Art Gallery in Shkodër, among others. In 2018 he was artist-in-residence at the Unlimited Residency in New York.