Bazament Art Space has a new mixed media exhibition by the artist Laureta Hajrullahu, curated by Maximilian Lehner. Her artistic works in this exhibition are based on the figure of girls in our reality and the virtual one. The exhibition contains two video-montages, two digital prints on the walls and four sculptures. This exhibition will be open to visitors from June 13 to September 19, 2024.
All of Hajrullahu’s works explore gender, privacy, intimacy, digital ecosystems, video games, ‘impossible’ futures, stereotypical female bodies etc.
The artist believes that her pieces are inspired by the loneliness she experienced in her hometown (Preševo). Therefore, since she has felt disappointment from reality, she has turned to the virtual world, where she has experienced a kind of escape from the daily routines and the problems faced by girls and women.
Even after the virtual world is seen as a space where you can be yourself, the artist has chosen to play with the expression “On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog”. Playing with the anonymity that the virtual world offers, Hajrullahu, since she had access to the Internet, ‘changed her reality’ by changing her gender, age, address and nationality with strangers online. And according to her, this was the first moment where she came face to face with gender inequality.
Laureta Hajrullahu born in 1997, in Presevo, Serbia — is a Pristina-based multimedia artist. Her artistic work explores privacy, gender, intimacy, digital ecosystems, video games and impossible futures. Through her digital media work, she presents diverse, critically informed views on ‘reality’. She does this by continuously deconstructing and re-evaluating the boundaries between the virtual and physical world.