Alketa Ramaj features ‘Untitled’ video in Prishtina

TIRANA, Feb. 27 – Young Albanian contemporary artist Alketa Ramaj, a winner of prestigious awards in Albania, has opened her first exhibition in Prishtina featuring an Untitled video exploring the relationship between a couple.
The video which is being shown at the Stacion – Center for Contemporary Art Prishtina can be seen as a reference of the relationship between a couple as a cycle of what may seem monotony, but in reality is an internal conflict of insecurity and silent domination.
Reflecting on the relationship of a couple and on what might at first glance appear like a “monotonous cycle” of it, the artist uses a poetic approach, eager to fathom this “monotonous relationship” as an interior conflict of insecurity and silent domination, disclosing of a form of “intimacy” that is not restrained to the surface of the protagonists’ skin.
Alketa Ramaj is the winner of the 19th edition of the Onufri visual arts competition in 2012. Her Untitled video won her a six-week artist-in-residency in New York in 2013.
Ramaj, 30, lives and work between Tirana and Venice, where she has been studying at Academy of Fine Arts since 2012. Her position as an artist is exemplary for an incessant curiosity and permanent study of new forms of expression, which reveals a striking “independence” in terms of applying her own critical and ambitious working methods. In the past years, the artist has explored a number of different mediums, from photography to video, painting and lately sculpture, organizers say.