Bio : Born 1969 in Shkoder, Albania. Lives and works in Milan, Italy.
Description : It presents an exhausting feeling of anticipation that derives from unresolved expectation. In the video a score of unemployed men who, in typical Mediterranean fashion, assemble on the steps of a square in Shkoder everyday in the hope that someone will employ them. One by one, their fatigue-marked faces parade; their expression is sufficient to capture their personal histories, unexpressed energy and lives ruled by waiting. The single portraits develop until the frame widens and each of the characters switches on a generator that stands beside him. Their gestures are slow and somewhat ritualistic. The initial silence gives way to a noise that gradually becomes deafening. Touching in its symbolical beauty, the last frame depicts each man holding a large light bulb which, fed by the generators, irradiates light and energy around them.