Adrian Paci - Artist Profile

Adrian Paci for Artist Profile, a Harabel Contemporary project.
Adrian Paci (born 1969) in Shkodër, Albania lives and works in Milano, Italy.
Adrian Paci left his native country of Albania in 1997 during the turbulent times of political uncertainty and instability. Since then, his self-referential work unfolds the narrative of displacement and loss; often reflecting on the migrant’s trauma of separation and nostalgia. From the innocence of childhood towards the social initiation and down to a mature voice of a political resonance, Paci paints the landscape of an ethical subject at the moment of becoming and transition.
His oeuvre is an anatomy of political desire: from an account of dispossession and exile through a ritual of belonging and identification down to the mechanics of self-empowerment and emancipation. His films, drawings and paintings often overlap imagination and fantasy with the cruelty of political reality and the harshness of everyday life.
Production: Evi Gjoni, Johan Kosta, Rozi Paci, Erjon Caslli.