Architecture in Albania — theculturetrip.com

Adrian Paci is a celebrated artist from Shkoder, famed for confronting difficult, unsettling and uneasy themes throughout his work. In his piece entitled The Column, Paci incorporates sculpture into film, streaming footage of stone as it is crafted into a Corinthian column on a ‘factory boat’ from China to Europe. The work invites the viewer to look behind the autonomous finished sculpture to reveal the labour that is poured into its intricate detail, moving to deconstruct the processes of architectural creation and evoke a wider consideration of the individual aspects of modern architecture. Paci attempts to revive those elements of production that have been absorbed unnoticed into the fabric of Albania’s public spaces, making the narrative of the stone an artwork in itself.

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