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JAKUP FERRI

1971, Prishtina. Lives in Prishtina.


Ferri puts his parents and sisters in front of the camera here. The original idea was for the family to thank the curator for inviting him to his first western European exhibition, but his mother could not restrain herself.
This unexpected situation is symptomatic. While the artist is excited, his mother sees the west as something threatening. More broadly, we could understand it as a paradoxical eastern gaze upon the west – a promised land and a devouring abyss.

Natasa Petresin


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