Driton Selmani. Everything We Do is Really, Really Brilliant

07.06.2023 - 27.08.2023

Kahán Art Space, Wien / Österreich

The Dr. Eva Kahan Foundation is pleased to announce the first Austrian exhibition of the Kosovar artist Driton Selmani, opening at the Kahan Art Space Vienna on June 7th. The exhibition is curated by Hana Ostan Ožbolt.

Driton Selmani (b. 1987 Kosovo, lives and works in Prishtina) 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 skepticism towards any supposedly given reality.... He later used this as a bene?cial tool to reconstruct his beliefs into visual artifacts. In 1999, old simulacra have been replaced by new simulacra; the ornaments of a previous space have been refurbished in order to unfold with new meanings but also new uncertainties.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 “ongoing event”, but rather positions himself as an actor, enacting his performances based on his personal histories, beliefs, and doubts.

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