Permanence in the Ephemeral Displaced
Brilant Milazimi
Curated by Albert Heta

23/12/2024 - 17/02/2025
Opening: 23/12/2024, 20:00

Venue: The Boxing Club, Mark Isaku 8, 10000 Prishtina, Republic of Kosovo
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Stacion - Center for Contemporary Art Prishtina is pleased to present "Permanence in the Ephemeral Displaced", a solo exhibition with Brilant Milazimi curated by Albert Heta.

"Permanence in the Ephemeral Displaced" marks the final exhibition of Stacion - Center for Contemporary Art Prishtina annual program for 2024 and serves as the concluding module of the Artists of Tomorrow Award, which provides a solo exhibition for the award’s winners.

The exhibition "Permanence in the Ephemeral Displaced" explores the tension between fleeting moments and enduring impact, where what is transient finds meaning in its displacement, challenging conventional notions of stability and continuity.

Space and time change within us when external space and conditions change; our bodies change eternally through displacement. In Kosovo, the place of origin of forced and unforced (physical) displacement, there are stories of homesickness (land sickness), with the latest migration trend, which has been going on for a decade and is driven by political, economic, and social reasons, continues.

This perpetual state of flux alters our ability to define our sense of self and inner identity. Images of scattered portraits of people walking away, leaving, wandering, enjoying barely small moments of leisure and clinging to the memory of togetherness and solitude are symbols in the sceneries, settings, objects and figures depicted by Brilant Milazimi. His work captures the fragmented and fluid identities and stories of those marked by displacement, offering insights into a life characterised by movement and longing.

People become space and home for us when we are loved enough, cared for enough, or in the “right” way. Being unable to physically make a safe home in physical space externally for people and ourselves due to external factors or acting toward a daydream for a home far away where life is easier and safer disturbs intimate bonds, families, other kinships and the way society develops itself. Being unable to physically define, conquer, and materialise home in society disrupts our internal model of home - what symbolically represents home within us – the home in relationships.

In communication, images we save, show and send to each other become symbols of a link that exists in time (and the internal space beyond time). The attempt to create connections between realities and to reflect them in material space through art looks like a coping mechanism - as art moves beyond space and time and the formal ways of expressing emotions in today’s distant world, dominated by emojis and virtual conversations.

Like most of our stories, this one is about personal and collective journeys toward a better life, fate, loss, and imagined bright futures that often fade away.

Created during journeys and imbued with stories of personal and collective experiences, these works emerged from periods of movement that shaped their technique, format, and materiality. They took form during travels and residencies, beginning with the time in New York City and continuing over the past few months as the artist explored various destinations.

Brilant Milazimi (*1994, Gjilan, lives and works in Prishtina) is the winner of the Artists of Tomorrow Award 2020, selected by the comprised of Anne Barlow, Qëndresë Deda, Flaka Haliti, Adam Kleinman and Nebojša Milikić, who found in Milazimi’s work a powerful presence in the expressions of human and non-human forms that, in certain instances, also merge into new, fantastical identities. Ideas around trauma, hope, coping, and freedom are implicitly and poetically conveyed in this body of work, manifesting his interest in the psychological underworld of Kosovo.

Brilant Milazimi is a co-founder of Hap, an art collective established in 2018 by four art students —Valdrin Thaqi, Brilant Milazimi, Dardan Murseli, and Ermir Zhinipotoku. “Hap” translates as “to step” or “to open”. The collective was formed as a way to organize and react to events in Kosovo through exhibitions and happenings.

Milazimi's first solo exhibition, Woke (2019), was organised by LambdaLambdaLambda in Prishtina, Kosovo.
His recent solo exhibitions include: One Ball for All, LambdaLambdaLambda, Prishtina (2023); 2023 Art Basel, LambdaLambdaLambda, Basel (2023); Lurk Beneath the Surface, PAUL SOTO, Los Angeles (2022); Let's See, LA MAISON DE RENDEZ-VOUS, Brussels (2021); Ermes-Ermes, Rome (2021)
His recent group exhibitions include: Fremdkörper, Am Schwarzenbergplatz, Vienna (2024); Chiesa Santa Lucia del Gonfalone, Ermes-Ermes, Rome (2023); Camera Obscura, Voloshyn Gallery, Kyiv (2023); Hotel Grand, Manifesta 14, Prishtina (2022); Nothing Like Home II, LambdaLambdaLambda2, Prishtina (2022); Internal, Palace of Youth and Sports, Prishtina (2022); A.I.R., Residency Unlimited, New York (2022); Nothing Like Home, LambdaLambdaLambda, Prishtina (2021)

The exhibition "Permanence in the Ephemeral Displaced" with Brilant Milazimi is supported by the Ministry of Culture, Youth, and Sports of the Republic of Kosovo, the Municipality of Prishtina, the Network of Independent Art and Culture Institutions (RRIPAK), Hej Taxi, X-Print, and DZG.

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Stacion – Center for Contemporary Art Prishtina
Permanence in the Ephemeral Displaced
23/12/2024 - 17/02/2025
Opening: 23/12/2024, 20:00

Artist: Brilant Milazimi
Curator: Albert Heta
Assistant curator: Qëndresë Deda
Exhibition architecture: Vala Osmani and Albert Heta
Exhibition text:  Qëndresë Deda and Albert Heta
Project coordinator: Qendresë Deda
Exhibition installation: Skender Xhukolli
Interns: Viona Reçica, Delmin Šaljunović
Photo documentation: Arben Llapashtica, Stacion – Center for Contemporary Art Prishtina
Poster: DZG

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