Albanian

The church of pets in Tirana

When we speed past it on the highway as evening falls over Tirana, its curved concrete walls, reminiscent of the Ronchamp chapel, and the faintly glowing cross on its façade make me think it might be a modern church

Brutalist circus in Albania

We leave feeling very happy about what we had seen. We came to witness decay – and instead, we found life

Wandering statues in Tirana

The spectre of communism still haunts Tirana—today not through ideology, but in the form of wandering statues with no place to call home

Blood and milk. Orestia Kapidani’s exhibition in Shkodër

Most of the figures are dressed in traditional attire and adopt a ritualized, almost sculptural posture for the camera, their faces closed, as though conscious of the legacy they are just leaving behind

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