My art emerges from moments of unconsciousness, leaving traces, layers of color, and sometimes even scratches. The marks are at times harsh, at times delicate, so subtle they are barely visible, signs that reflect my inner world: my emotional, spiritual, and mental state.
From the unconscious, feelings and perceptions penetrate the core of my art; everything springs from there: themes of identity, family, culture, history, the past, the present, and a future that still remains blurred.
My works are shaped by imagination, through a blend of coexisting emotions: curiosity and doubt; memories and dreams; fears and hopes; love and anger.
An important theme is the struggle with trauma and the traces it leaves behind. But the work also touches on freedom, the known and the unknown, movement, creation, as well as nature with its magical beauty.
The female figure is a constant presence, a symbol of strength, sensitivity, the memory of histories, and transformation. She appears as both body and wounded spirit, carrying within herself identity, pain, endurance, beauty, and creative power.
My art flows from within me as metaphor, as irony, as paradox, as a free language. Art, as a free form of expression, serves me as a meditative therapy.
Besa Kicaj, Artist
The exhibition was organized with the financial support of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) as part of the project “Empowering Cultural Expression.” Its contents are the sole responsibility of Hani i 2 Robertëve and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation.
