Artist Petrit Halilaj’s childhood drawings from the Kosovan War | Tate
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- Опубліковано 10 лис 2021
- Petrit Halilaj's work investigates cultural identity, nationhood and heritage, and ideas of personal and collective history. Hear from the artist about his childhood in an Albanian refugee camp during the Kosovan war (1998-9) and the drawings he made, which he has re-interpreted into large scale hanging sculptures in his exhibition at Tate St Ives.
See Petrit Halilaj: Very volcanic over this green feather at Tate St Ives until 16 January 2022.
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Impressive art work from a child! And how powerful that art could help them to express their emotions and bring the beauty out of a destruction!
Heartbreaking and beautiful. We know there are still so many child refugees stuck in camps around the world.
Way too many
What a beautiful soul to choose an incarnation of such strife, then to translate what he has seen into images that bring what he has seen to life yet in a beautiful way.
Some Kosovar friends who came to Canada as refugees and returned after the war ended were pleased when I shared this video. Petrit Halilaj is one of Kosovo’s most respected artists.
solo arte amor tranformacion y sanacion
gracias
Argentina
Se me salen las lágrimas.
Awesome art and story! There's an amazing child artist called ZENCASSO here in Asia that reminds me of this guys artistic journey.
I served in the US Army in Kosovo during 97-98. Too many people forget and others never concerned themselves with that war situation. In 2005 in Anchorage, Alaska, USA, I was served a delicious steak by a Kosovo chef! We had a good time remembering.
you ''freed'' a people so that they could freely immigrate up to goddamn Alaska...
job well done.
i salute you, sir.
@@newreast3904 you forget you are not adressing someone who controls the army
@@katarina1416 poor him, drafted violently at such a tender age cause his homeland and ole mom and dad were under attack. he had to do something for the sacred...i am so sorry...
It made me cry. Thank you
Beautiful, powerful art. And he is right…bigotry blinds the ability of person who suffers from it to see the beauty in the other.
I never had this feeling of actually considering travel to see art until this. How about hanging metal doupliactes outside in spaces throughout the land. Powerful message indeed of how man is the destroyer side of this world.
Very moving. The media did not cover the real reason behind the war which was all about privitization and Corporations going in to extract resources and control land. Highly recommend Michael Parenti's excellent book "To Kill A Nation" which gives clear data and factual information; something NO major media source ever did.
Beyond beautiful
Cool.. Great work of art
Art therapy is so important for traumatized people…whether adult or child. I am still shamed by how long it took for meaningful intervention. I know many soldiers who went there suffered from permanent ptsd as a result of the horrors they witnessed and thousands upon thousands of local people. The consequences of war do not end when a treaty is signed and “hostilities” end.
Very moving.
Excellent. Thank you.
Exceptional - please tour this exhibition is really worth sharing it with more audiences!
when art is the way to get you to future, it should be bright as your art.
This message is brilliant and should be brought to full display at the Tate Modern/Britain - more accessible to Kosovan immigrants now based in London to reflect on their history :)
Interesting that he cuts out the drawings and hangs it in space. Might not be his thing but it would be interesting to see him create a drawing in VR
Great idea cause I was thinking this is the most powerful art to get me to consider traveling just for it alone. VR can sear the message!!!!
Very impressive work.
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Impressive artwork.
i remember watching that war unfold via the news here in USA... especially snipers shooting innocent people in cities, from surrounding hills... what made them think that was "okay" to do that... we never really learned why. I hope they were brought to justice.
👏❤️👏 Magnificent!!!
Brilliant Petrit Halaj.UTube brings some light on what these human beings had to endure.I have just looked at video of Condo's self-indulgent work what a difference.
beautiful transformation
Beautiful, powerful art. And he is right…bigotry blinds the ability of the person who suffers from it to see the beauty in the other. I believe bigotry is a form of mental illness.
dope
Lijepa i tuzna prica, djeca treba da rastu u miru a ne kao mi u BiH ili Kosovu😪
Perhaps 🤔 this video has no context between what the artist is talking about and what are they showing; he is from a place that was damage by a civil war ok but what is the connection with the oppression now? Because the only real examples we can find, now, of the problems that originated the war in Kosovo is the slave treatment of Chinese muslins and the invasion of middle easterners into Europe
Well he said he returned to these drawings due to “a failure of the change of different countries on a diplomatic level” - I suppose he feels that war is still fuelled by similar reasons, and that people are still traumatised by war in a similar way that he was.
Not only that, but he is displaying how art can be used to express certain emotions or scenes that language cannot. Fears or anxieties he had about the future, about other people, and about danger manifested themselves in to these drawings ✍️
I’m not sure what you’re referring to with the “invasion of Middle Easterns in to Europe” as I’m certain the artist didn’t refer to this or stated refugees as invaders. I think, if anything, he’s attempting to communicate how people are displaced by war in more than just a geographical way.
lol what are you talking about you werido, the war was with serbs and Albanians from Kosovo. There was never Chinese people there. Are you high or something.
What, exactly, is your complaint?… that the artist isn’t concentrating on (or is, since you don’t make it clear) about “slave treatment of Chinese muslins” (they are Muslims the least you can do is spell it correctly) and his lack of bias (again I am guessing because you don’t make it clear) against invading Europe” which you seem to think is directly linked to the war in Kosovo. Neither the treatment of Muslims in China (they are not “Chinese” they are native Uyrghars who live within China’s borders) or the “Muddle Eastern” refugees are the result of the war in Kosovo.
Both these issues and the plight of so many minority populations are the result of a complex series of modern and historical wars, conflicts, insurgencies, foreign nations meddling in the affairs of other nations and siding with dictators to further their own political and international ends, the carving up of nations without regard for the traditional inhabitants but to sweeten the pot for themselves and their allies…
The artist extrapolating on his own experience to the common experience of other people from other conflicts.
He is creating his own personal expression of conflict though his eyes, not recreating whatever rocking-horse concerns you have.
I cannot correct typos or delete and rewrite my comments or I would correct “Muddle East” to Middle East” and insert “invasion of Middle Easterners into Europe”. Which accidentally got deleted.
I would suggest that you actually watch the video and listen to what he was actually saying. Because you seen to have completely gotten the wrong end of the stick on what the video was about and what his artwork was about.
Beyond beautiful
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