Sislej Xhafa - Archive of Braid 2018, wooden market boxes, hair, 2,13 x 4 x 6 m. Photo: Nestor Kim
Sislej Xhafa - Archive of Braid 2018, wooden market boxes, hair, 2,13 x 4 x 6 m. Photo: Nestor Kim
Sislej Xhafa - Rosa 2018, fridge, red rose, 168 x 70 x 50 cm. Photo: Nestor Kim
Sislej Xhafa - Rosa 2018, fridge, red rose, 168 x 70 x 50 cm. Photo: Nestor Kim
Sislej Xhafa - Association in Blue 2018, ink on fabric, 120 x 90 cm. Photo: Nestor Kim
Sislej Xhafa - Association in Blue 2018, ink on fabric, 120 x 90 cm. Photo: Nestor Kim
Sislej Xhafa - Association in Yellow 2005, ink on fabric, 120 x 90 cm. Photo: Nestor Kim
Sislej Xhafa - Monument of Desire 2018, bicycle and air-conditionner, dimensions variable. Photo: Nestor Kim
Sislej Xhafa - Again and Again 2000-2018, C-print, Photo: Nestor Kim
Sislej Xhafa - Sunshine 2016, plow, light bulbs, Photo: Nestor Kim
Sislej Xhafa - Sister 2013, white tombstone with telephone receiver, 85 x 60 x 30 cm. Photo: Nestor Kim
Sislej Xhafa - soft earth 2018, hammock, shovels, dimensions variable. Photo: Nestor Kim
Sislej Xhafa - soft earth 2018, hammock, shovels, dimensions variable. Photo: Nestor Kim
Sislej Xhafa - Dish Monument 2012-2018, wood, satellite dish, variable height 7-15 m. Photo: Nestor Kim
Sislej Xhafa - Rosa azul exhibition view 2018 / Museo Nacional De Bellas Artes, Cuba
Sislej Xhafa - This Call May Be Recorded For Quality Service 2012, used black and multicolor mobile phones, ø 3 m. Photo: Nestor Kim
Sislej Xhafa - Rocket Ship 2011, wheelbarrow, red light strings, 60 x 150 x 65 cm. Photo: Nestor Kim
Sislej Xhafa - Dressed Tone 2007, tape, microphone, cardboard box, cable: 227 cm, box: 64 x 40 x 25 cm. Photo: Nestor Kim
Sislej Xhafa - No Biting Here 2018, mosquito net on stretcher, 49 x 75 cm. Photo: Nestor Kim
Sislej Xhafa - Confessional 2018, cardboards, egg packaging, 2 x 1,5 m. Photo: Nestor Kim
Sislej Xhafa - Rosa azul exhibition view 2018 / Museo Nacional De Bellas Artes, Cuba
Sislej Xhafa - Wheels of Color 2018, bicitaxi boards on stretcher, 99 x 136 cm. Photo: Nestor Kim
Sislej Xhafa - Concetto in Exile 2018, truck PVC board on stretcher, 230 x 700 cm. Photo: Nestor Kim
Sislej Xhafa - Wheels of Color 2018, bicitaxi boards on stretcher, 109 x 131 cm. Photo: Nestor Kim
Sislej Xhafa - Sunshade 2011, cothes, umbrella. Photo: Nestor Kim
Sislej Xhafa - Wheels of Color 2018, bicitaxi boards on stretcher, 113 x 211 cm. Photo: Nestor Kim
Sislej Xhafa - resting high 2018, shoe, nylon wire, earth, grass, dimensions variable. Photo: Nestor Kim
Sislej Xhafa - Shadow dancing 2018, video projection, 4'15''. Photo: Nestor Kim
Sislej Xhafa - dry fountain 2018, 2 stripped spring mattresses, dimensions variable. Photo: Nestor Kim
Sislej Xhafa - dry fountain 2018, 2 stripped spring mattresses, dimensions variable. Photo: Nestor Kim
Sislej Xhafa - indira and renier 2018, cement, dimensions variable. Photo: Nestor Kim
Sislej Xhafa - Paradiso 2003-2018, LED, wooden structure, dimensions variable. Photo: Gabriel Bianchini
The exhibition, curated by the Museum’s director Jorge Fernández Torres, is an array of the artist’s iconic works and works made specifically for this project. Xhafa’s research is focused on the social consequences of the leading economic systems, and the conceptual outcome deriving from their interrelations. The artist describes himself as a disruptive element in the artworld’s conformism. With the work Padiglione Clandestino, he proclaimed his moving body as an illegal pavilion of Albania and invited visitors to play soccer with him. Working with different media Xhafa’s thread is to be sought in his investigations of the phenomenon of perpetual motion that drives us in the form of conquer, colonization and of tourism. The exhibition, Rosa azul, is a tribute to the powerful beauty of an island surrounded by global upheavals and to its people whose uniqueness it is celebrating. Born in Pejë, Kosova, in 1970, Sislej Xhafa lives and works in New York. He exhibited his work internationally.
