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OLSON LAMAJ

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100x150 cm,digital photo, 2012 Contemporary Art Gallery Invited to partake an art residency in village Rasma in north of Albania, Lamaj conceived a mere conceptual artwork. The artist wanted to create an intellectual connection with the absence of an established contemporary art system in Albania and the abandoned shelter used for the installation, the very typical ruined architecture land-marking the Albanian landscape. Then, the medium used by Lamaj is an explicit and unequivocal written label. Here the lexicon is essential and the intent is provocative since the work consists of a small billboard saying “Contemporary Art Gallery”. While the work wants to be the sign that any ‘real’ and ‘physical’ Contemporary art gallery has never found a place in Albania, the architecture becomes a sort of imaginary gallery exhibiting the left part of the evolution of a society that, more and more, generates needs, creates illusions and faces problems up finding solution. Hence, the Lamaj’s shared desire to found the run-space MIZA.