TIRANA, Jan. 29 – Internationally renowned contemporary artist Adrian Paci who represented Albania in the 2014 Venice Biennale, is opening his first solo exhibition in Athens. In his the “The Guardians” exhibition, Paci introduces several new especially created for the show.
“The focal point of the large-scale installation titled ‘Names’ is the fact that a large number of immigrants in Greece have changed their original names and substituted them with Greek ones,” organizers say. The work expresses a neutral stand towards the socio-ethical issues of such a phenomenon. As the artist states, his main goal is to ‘transform the gallery into a kind of “agency” that invites people who changed their names to write their original name on a piece of paper. In this way, the immigrants who considered their original name “problematic” for their integration into Greek society are invited to affirm it through a simple gesture of hand writing on a small piece of paper.’
Adrian Paci is an internationally renowned artist born in Shkoder in 1969. A considerable part of the work of Adrian Paci is dedicated to the theme of loss, abandonment of his land to deal with the new realities. Argument developed from the experience of migration, expressed through the story of memory, current topic and universal, embracing the conditions of all emigrants.
The exhibition is scheduled to open on Feb. 5 at the Kalfayan Galleries in Athens.
