Animation films / drawings / photographs / sound recordings / documents.
Lender: the artist.

Alexander Schellowreconstructs scenes that he has actually witnessed from memory. He makes drawings in Indian ink and uses them in animation films. Tirana is a film in progress and the scenario is presented at the Fresnoy in installation form. Two video projections show landscapes and the face of a young boy from Fushe Arrez, a small town in the North of Albania. On the tables, Alexander Schellow has brought together four series. Albania is first seen as a country which "does not exist", an object of fantasy fuelled by people's ignorance. Then two other points of view on the country are presented: that of an architect, Vlash Muka, and that of an OSCE co-ordinator, Elmars Svekis. They show the difficulties for a country to go from a vernacular culture to European integration. On the fourth table are books that present the thousands of drawings executed by Schellow in Albania.

Born in 1974.
Lives and works in Berlin, Germany.
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