ARTIST PROFILE
- Kosovo (b. 1987 in Ferizaj)
- Currently in Prishtina and Doganaj, Kosovo.
- Visual Artist Arts University Bournemouth UK
CONTACT & LINKS
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- 2015
- Custom-made concrete pots, metal parts, hand-crafted and plastered EPS buildings, soil, grass, 100 cm high, 300cm wide Installation view: Modelariumi Prishtina
Off - reflects on the forced process of landscape transformation engendered by social and political motivations - Kálmán Borbála - Ludwig Muzeum, Budapest
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Selected Works | 2012 - 2018
Selmani approaches the idea of perceived reality by deconstructing formations of social, political and cultural topics that have been embodied around him. At a young age, he was told to worship a country that no longer existed, which caused him to form a basis of scepticism towards any supposedly given reality. He later used this as a beneficial tool to reconstruct his beliefs into visual artefacts. In 1999, old simulacra have been replaced by new simulacra; the ornaments of a previous space have been refurbished in order to unfold with new meanings but also new uncertainties. Selmani confronts himself as a spectator of this “on-going event”, but rather positions himself as an actor, enacting his performances based on his personal histories, beliefs and doubts.