1971, Prishtina. Lives in Prishtina.

Jakup Ferri uses himself as the main protagonist in videos that establish an ironic distance to issues of cultural identity, history and the place of the peripheral artist. This video is an homage to Croatian conceptualist Mladen Stilinoviç, who made an embroidery in 1992 with the same title: An artist who speaks no English is no artist. Here, Ferri speaks in his own broken English. In doing so, he purposefully creates a hilarious situation that slowly turns critical as the irony of the title becomes clear.

Natasa Petresin

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