Guri i rëndë në vend të vet
Who’s there?

by Eliot
Curator: Ilir Kaso

>>> 9 to 18 May 2023
>>> Europe House Tirana
>>> Vernissage Tuesday May 9 at 17hrs

who's there?
The shadow
A stylized, abstract figure resembling a person in a flowing dress with arms extended, outlined in black with red accents on a gradient background. Text at the top reads, 'Can't wait to join the exhibitionists club!' and at the bottom, it says, 'Elio
Precious stone
The hill
time fossil
Maybe the next hill...

The hill

Eliot was born out of the beautiful rocks of this land.

He got his own name because he's not me.

He's the one that asked questions with no answers when I was very young and gave value to the stone that I bear.

“Heavy stone in its place” is heavy with meaning, universal in its reach, when I question belonging and identity, I'm forever bound to keep looking for an answer to… Who's there? Maybe I’ll see it from the top of the next hill.

Samer,

I mean Eliot.

shadow out of reach

The shadow

He approached what has made him,
He realized the shadow is real.
For a split-second he saw himself in the distance, as he got ever near
He turned his back but stood there still
          spare me the light, spare me the day
He muttered to a horizon all round, with a single line that got so thin
but he gazed in vain
“Perhaps one more step, or two…”, had lured his heels away…

A hand-drawn sketch of a human figure with large sand clock, lying on their side with crossed arms, and a long, curving body. The drawing is minimalistic with simple lines and shading.

Time fossil

“It’s about time”
About time… for what?
“It’s about time, this time, it’s about time”
Eliot said as he cracked open a stone, carved by some moments,
polished by others,
and put it down.
Time? .
..
I checked the time,
as it was time,
for time to change.
But it had not.

Any second now

Any day,

Any year
now

Pinned to the wall
Desperate for a tick that
I had not known,
Was no time at all

Until it ticks I was hanging
Dead look locking life looking to turn
Away, for fear of turning
To stone the very moment
The look comes to life

From his chair Eliot took a sip of air, looked me in the eye
“not more than once, upon a time,

>>> List of pieces

>>> Vernissage & Media:

Three people at an indoor event looking at a carved stone sculpture. A woman and two men, one with a beard and the other with glasses, are engaged in viewing the sculpture.
A man holding papers and gesturing communicates with a woman in front of a display with multiple screens reading 'Europe Week 2023.' An EU flag is visible in the background.
A metallic sculpture resembling a rock with a wire circled around and the word 'flickr' overlayed, with a blurred crowd of people in the background.
RTSH television interview

With the support of the EU Delegation to Albania and the Embassy of Belgium in Sofia