5TH EDITION OF: AUTOSTRADA BIENNALE
2025
Venues:
Hamam Gazi Mehmet Pasha & Shani Efendi House
Prizren, Kosovo
Shown works:
Ghosts of Our Skin, 2025, Primal Fears, 2024, We Are All the Monsters We Create – Within Human Shells, 2024 and Eggseeds, 2023
Turning toward the site’s eroded symbolic function, Anita Muçolli presents a site-specific installation reflecting on its transformation from a place of communal purification to a silent architectural shell. By engaging with the structure as both witness and remnant, Muçolli evokes the human body as a fossilized, deformed trace—caught between memory and speculation. This quiet meditation on absence and transformation not only explores the fading of cultural rituals but also highlights the lingering presence they continue to exert on collective memory.
Together, the three artists –Doruntina Kastrati, Anita Muçolli and Stephanie Rizaj– bring a compelling mix of presence, absence, and transformation to the Hammam, engaging in a collective act of reimagining its place in contemporary consciousness.
On the ground floor of Shani Efendi House, intensifying the atmosphere, Anita Muçolli’s ceramic interventions reference Kosovar fables, family narratives, and childhood memories. Her sleek, dark-patinated forms animate the space, evoking horror-genre imagery of the monstrous and reminding viewers that human animals are not the only beings present here.
