The exhibition "Borders" brings new and unknown areas of art
A joint exhibition entitled "Borders" by artists Dita Starova Qerimi and Shqipe Mehmeti will be on display at the Gentineta Gallery in Zurich, Switzerland from November 21st to December 4th.
"We are drawing borders on the ground and building walls. We are surrounded by walls. This is a world of boundaries and limitations, and our culture is a culture of differences (the notion of difference thought as a negative determination, as a condition for identity). The walls are around us, they divide the space, they close it, they surround us, they intersect and everything diverges, they stretch indefinitely, they spread on all sides creating an endless labyrinth. Our world is our labyrinth.
The labyrinth does not allow stopping and resting, it calls for passing and wandering. The immensity of the labyrinth we have built does not allow us to return to familiar paths. The labyrinth leads to no destination, nor is there a hidden center. There is no way out because wherever we go we build and build it. We are always at the center of the labyrinth - the Minotaur that wanders forever in the world he created (this is a world in which man, wherever he goes, meets only himself, says Hannah Arendt).
The artist discovers the secret signs and signposts on the walls and searches for the invisible thread of Ariadne. The constant and tireless wandering through the labyrinth in which the memory is lost now gets a direction that leads out of the labyrinth to the exit - to the unlimited space and the unknown. Art is possible because the artist dares to cross boundaries. He embarks on an uncertain journey into the unknown, beyond the boundaries of what is visible and known. The artist's courage to cross boundaries creates an opportunity to create a work of art.
"This project is just such an act of courage, where artists Shqipe Mehmeti and Dita Starova Qerimi try to cross the boundaries of the known in their works and head to some new and unknown areas of art," wrote art critic Emil Aleksiev about the exhibition. "Borders".
(The text was published in "Cultural Press" No. 107, in the print edition of the newspaper "Free Press" on November 27-28, 2021)
