Vanessa Safavi – Don’t you have anything else to talk about than the color of your car?

Vanessa Safavi in discussion with Pauline Beaudemont,
Capetown - New York, April 12th 2011.
Translation by Jeanne-Salomé Rochat.
published in Novembre, issue 3 (S/S 2011)
www.novembremagazine.com

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Vanessa Safavi – Kunstbulletin 10/2011

Vanessa Safavi
Fokus by Christiane Rekade
Kunstbulletin 10/2011
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Vanessa Safavi – Art in America

Vanessa Safavi
Kunsthaus Glarus, solo exhibition
review by Aoife Rosenmeyer

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Petrit Halilaj – Kostërrc

Petrit Halilaj
Kostërrc
2011
pigment print on rag paper
42 x 60 cm
Edition of 10 plus 5 AP
€ 500

Kostërrc (CH), 2011 consists of a hole (600 x 400 x 230 cm high)
made in the Kostërrc hill in Kosovo. This hill is property of
the Halilaj family and the original location of the house where
 the artist was born.
The soil taken from the hole is transported to Basel, to nearly
 fill the booth at the fair. This “land for sale” relates both
to many personal and intimate questions which are integral to
the artist’s research, as well as to social and cultural
problematics linked to the newborn state of Kosovo and its
migration phenomena (with a particular relation to Switzerland). 



The huge effort required to move the soil also becomes a symbol
 of the difficulties of migration and integration, of the strong
 attachment to a culture which may become a self-detriment when
preserved in another culture. With the gesture of bringing a
piece of Kosovo to Switzerland, a country where one of the
larger foreign community is actually from Kosovo, the artist not
 only tries to move its land into other surroundings – following
 the dream of many of its inhabitants – but he also brings the
Kosovo community in Switzerland a little piece of their land.

The process shows all the difficulties related to migration, and
 the near-impossibility of preserving an integrity from one
context to another.

Kasia Fudakowski – Novembre Magazine

Kasia Fudakowski, interview with Judith Vrancken
Novembre Magazine, December issue, 2011

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