Haus N Athen

Collaborative work by Amalia Vekri & Dardan Zhegrova in the exhibition We Kept On Dressing.

Untitled, 2026, acrylic, ink, watercolour, coffee, marker pen on fabric, 25 m x 150 cm

Extract from Arnisa Zeqo’s text @arnisa_zeqo

“The drapery between and within bodies in Pompei, like a metaphysical skin creates an entry into a different dimension. It functions like a connecting tissue, a narrative where acts and desire are playing a game of hide and seek. These elements of drapery are what binds the drawings and watercolours together in the exhibition ‘We kept on Dressing’. There is the evocation of the actual location, an old pyjama manufacturer, a place for cozy dreams. The installation created with found older fabric from the 1970s brings to life parallel dimensions of sex work and the changes on sexual imagination. It is like a skin where everything is slippery and everything suface. In the drawings of Dardan, the watercolours of Amalia, the fabric and in my own mental images different techniques of the body are laid bare to be hidden and seen. Like in rowing, and the clothing used in the gym, the music perpetrating my ear, the techniques of the body within sexual consumption are entangled on many layers of expectation, practice and imagination. How can desire and intimacy be drawn, be present alongside the changing trends of quick consumption? Could perhaps the very lack of meaning, the immediate mediation of ‘scenes’ be a lens for opening up how the techniques of the body relate to affect and emotion? Could this be a sort of revelation, like in a feverish dream?”

@amalia_vekri @dardanzhegrova