Enesa Xheladini explores the foundations of visuality, highlighting the point and line as basic elements in geometry, architecture, and visual arts. Conceptually, her work stands out for its minimalist pencil drawings, executed as a monumental undertaking over time (2014–2020), consisting of 12 notebooks (9 x 12 cm), densely filled with entire rows of repeated dots and lines. Each notebook has 224 pages, functioning as individual chapters with abstract narratives—like an unceasing rhythm of breath, interrupted only briefly at the flipping of pages and the covers that frame the episodes of the story.
A lot of work for Enesa to draw, patiently and restlessly, her own hand, those hundreds of thousands of signs. When you browse the river of inscriptions, you are overcome by the feeling of diving into an ocean of immeasurable multiplicity of the same, but which has internal currents with simultaneous refractions structured in a chain, or prayer beads for finding peace and spiritual harmony. Although the 224 pages are repetitions of the same shapes, they are not mechanical prints with industrial uniformity, but originate from individual handwriting. Enesa also emphasizes the introspective dimension of the drawings themselves, because they are recorders of a tensio-cardio-measuring process, which make the work like a prayer bead that is named "“Know Yourself!”!”
Since 2019, Enesa has begun challenging herself to engage in self-discovery through a more complex medium: painting. The formula of repeated basic elements from the notebooks could not be directly transferred into painting. If the process in the notebooks recalls the Latin phrase“Nulla dies sine linea” (në shqip: mos e lë asnjë ditë pa e bërë një vijë), ku Enesa përditë i ka bërë më shumë se një, te piktura formula nuk funkciononte thjeshtë si zgjatim. Andaj eksplorimet e saja në pikturë shkonin në dy drejtime.
Së pari ajo u përqëndrua te elementet dalluese materiale të pikturës: cilësia e pëhurës dhe plasticiteti dhe simbolika e ngjyrave elementare (e zeza, e bardha…) ku ajo nuk kujdeset për konceptim holistik të pikturës (gjetja e kompozicionit të balancuar), por kërkon që në prapavitë monokrone të pikturave, që ndarë në kolana horizontale ose vertikale, të bëjë depozitime të shtresave me ngjyra vaji bazike jo vetëm me brusha por edhe shpatulla të vogla, ku këto ngjyra (e zeza, e bardha, oker, ngjyrë vjollce) i bën të trasha, madje i ngurtëson, duke krijuar prej tyre minirelief kontiunuel pikash dhe vijash që bëjnë hije ose spërkasin shkëlqime me çka piktura spontanisht “vetëstrukturohet”.
Still, this effect is not entirely uncontrolled, the artist’s process is not aimed at making the works necessarily pleasing to the eye, but rather at producing an honest vision of reconciliation with her own inner spiritual feelings. As with her earlier drawings, these paintings function as personal psychograms.
That said, Enesa certainly knows how to create paintings that are aesthetically pleasing as well, marked by simplicity and striking harmony, as seen in her series of paintings with circles. These are closely aligned in style and minimalist approach with the already established direction of geometric abstract art. In these works, the artist achieves a synthesis of introspective experience with perfected universal forms. Without a doubt, Enesa Xheladini is developing into a highly promising creative artist.
Shkëlzen Maliqi
26 06 2025
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