We continue our introduction of the artists in “Brieftopia: Art Between Crisis and Imagination” with the Albanian artist Armando Lulaj.
Armando Lulaj (Tirana, 1980) is a writer of plays, texts on risk territories, filmmaker and producer of conflict images.
His research is orientated towards accentuating the border between economical power, fictional democracy, and social disparity in a global context.
His main topics of interest are the structure of power and institutional critique. In 2003 he founded the DebatikCenter of Contemporary Art, an independent art center based in Tirana.
For the exhibition, Lulaj will present part of his long-term project “The Deepest Sound” as a series of 224 photographs that provocatively invite us to view the world not as a system governed by power and economy, but as a whole without borders or nations—exactly as it appears from outer space.
As the artist notes, “art has always sought to imitate this possibility, even if only briefly and in miniature.”
The project is realised with financial support from procedure BG-RRP-11.021, New Generation of Local Cultural Policies for Large Municipalities, Investment Development of Cultural and Creative Sectors, Component Social Inclusion, National Recovery and Resilience Plan.