Rifts: Homecoming Experiences in the artworks of Adrian Paci and Maja Bajević
Abstract
This article examines a body of artworks by Maja Bajević and Adrian Paci within their contexts of production in order to explore questions of exilic identities in relationship to homecoming. Both artists have lived the experience of exile. When war broke out in Yugoslavia in 1991, Maja Bajević was in Paris on a Beaux-Arts scholarship, and was unable to return to her homeland until the end of the 1990s. As for Adrian Paci, after graduating from the Academy of Fine Arts in Tirana, he left Albania in 1997, during the financial crisis, and took refuge in Italy. From analyses of artworks, artists’ statements, exhibition catalogues, historical research, and academic writings about the issue of return, I explore different relationships and temporalities of return: what does the permanent loss of exile mean in terms of homecoming?
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