His work deals with migration, displacement, the repercussions of globalization, and the transformation of cultural identities. Albanian Stories is his first video work. It features Paci’s three-year-old daughter recounting an improvised fairytale in which folkloric characters commingle with “soldiers” and “international forces.” The fairytale becomes a vehicle for exposing both the particularity and the universality of conflict, as well as the way in which our understanding of events is colored by the circumstances surrounding their reception.
The work The Column shows the journey of a block of marble from its extraction from a quarry in China to its destination in Europe, during which sculptors transform it into a Roman column. The block of marble is loaded on board a kind of factory-ship, a cargo whose open hold serves as a workshop for the sculptors. Capitalist logic perfectly carried out: in order to maximize profit, the work is completed during the journey. As if in an ancient saga transposed to our modern day, we follow this seemingly obstinate object transforming into the metaphor of a life journey, and in the process, revealing us many untold human-life stories, inextricably related to and shaped by it.
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(Español) El artista Camilo Restrepo ya hizo el montaje de la obra con la que participará en el Encuentro Internacional de Arte de Medellín: Bowling For Medellín, así como la obra de Restrepo ya se hizo el montaje de más obras.
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