Dardan Zhegrova at Summer School as School 2018
July 25, 2018, 19:00
Venue: Boxing Club
Summer School as School
July 16 – August 2, 2018
Stacion – Center for Contemporary Art Prishtina is pleased to announce the lecture performance “Lucky Pierre: Casting for a wet dream” by Dardan Zhegrova, part of Summer School as School 2018 Public Program.
Lucky Pierre stands for the third person in a love relationship. Both in homosexual and heterosexual relationships. Being both active and a passive protagonist in Sex. Inspired by this official definition, Lucky Pierre was conceived as a series of live performances, poetry readings combined with instrumental music. The series began in 2016 as a translation of feelings into words and a collection of love poems based on real personal stories.
This actual performance "Casting for a wet dream" is a new collection of poems about one sided love, sexual fantasies and the practice of daydreaming. Standing in between dreams and reality the persona "Lucky Pierre" can be seen as a manifestation of one’s ability to transform reality, to manipulate feelings and even to impact past-present-future, in terms of memories and what one chooses to remember as its own "landscape", a real living space.
Dardan Zhegrova, born in 1991, lives in Prishtina. Dardan Zhegrova’s work plays with the flux between language and its translation into visual representation. In his works emotion is used as an artistic medium that potentially could act as a means to question our assumptions about intimacy and expression. The artist can be regarded as a poet in a time where physical proximity is being replaced by an ubiquitous availability through modern means of communication. Zhegrova is represented by LambdaLambdaLambda gallery in Prishtina.
His most recent group exhibitions include: Zeta Gallery, Tirana (2018); Park View, Los Angeles (2017); National Gallery Kosovo (2017); Galerie Sultana, Paris (2016); FeKK short film festival, Ljubljana (2016); Swimming Pool Sofia, Frankfurt am Main (2016) and Baushtelle: Balkan Temple, Zurich/Belgrade/Pristina (2015). His recent solo exhibitions and performances include: LambdaLambdaLambda, Prishtina (2018); Stacion - Center for Contemporary Art Prishtina, (together with Lola Sylaj), Prishtina (2017); De-Construkt (together with Lola Sylaj), NYC (2017); M, Prishtina (2016) and LambdaLambdaLambda, Prishtina (2015). He recently performed his “Live-Poetry” at bazament, Tirana (2018); KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2018). He was awarded with the Gjion Mili Prize of the National Gallery Kosovo (2017).