New York based artist home with video art

TIRANA, Feb. 20 – New York based young Albanian artist Irgin Sena has opened a solo exhibition at the Miza gallery in Tirana, featuring a video, called “It started started started somehow (zoo).”
“The 16.15 mi video is comprised of three distinct elements. One of these elements explores the relationship between a monument and the trees surrounding it; moreover, it looks into the relationship’s capacity to create its own sound score. Another element, looks in to the surroundings of a shrinking and disappearing zoo. A residue. A zoo that is present only through the sound it produces. The three elements rupture, prolong, deform, reform and renew the meaning of each other in the light of the new context where they are situated.”
It will be open at the Miza gallery near the Faculty of Law from February 19 to March 19.
Born in Albania, Irgin Sena, 31, lives and works in New York. He has a MFA from the Hunter College. In 2007, he received the ARDHJE Award for Contemporary Art and in 2012 he was awarded the Marian Netter Award. Irgin has participated at Qui Vive, International Moscow Biennial for Young Art and New Insight, Chicago. His work has been shown at Futura- Center For contemporary Art, Prague; Art Chicago; Boots Contemporary Art Space, St. Louis; Vanessa Quang Galerie, Paris; House am Lutzowplatz, Berlin; The National Gallery, Tirana and Badischer-Kunstverein, Karlsruhe.