Flaka Haliti grew up in Kosovo and began her studies at the Academy of Arts in Pristina. She then moved to Frankfurt and Munich to continue her artistic career. She represented Kosovo at the 56th Venice Biennale in 2013. Inspired by her experience living abroad, Haliti began to address issues of cultural and artistic identity. In her works, she explores the boundaries of mobility, freedom and democracy, but the structural analysis of the social network and the art market also plays an important role in her art. Her work, Nihal, is a part of a series of ten works, each with a separate name, in which Haliti explores the questions of identity, escape, migration and mobility. Her bags filled with blue sand not only refer to uprooting, but to the loss of possession associated with leaving home. Haliti displays the colours of the European Union that is the subject of desire, while blue for her is the colour of the horizon, and thus a metaphor for something constantly in mind which may never be reached. Her small wire figure is based on children's drawings symbolizing purity and innocence.
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