DOMA Art Foundation is pleased to present “Clubbing Insistence: After a Party,” a group exhibition featuring Atdhe Behluli, Laureta Hajrullahu, Arbnor Karaliti, Leart Rama, Mimoza Sahiti, and Yll Xhaferi. The exhibition assembles works across a multitude of media and disciplines that reflect on happenings and clubbing as a fleeting catharsis, a need, and an act of transgression against the broader political and socio-economic factors that propel a state of physical and emotional isolation.
Altogether, the works allude to the alienation, euphoria, and despondency manifested in such shared experiences in both public and private spaces. At Doza Gallery, photographs by Atdhe Behuli document intimate moments at private gatherings that serve as a sanctuary space for self-exploration and celebration of queerness as acts that are consistently contested and violated in public environments. These confining social norms are described as “the abyss that will never let me see above” in the video of the filmmaker and DJ, Leart Rama, entitled I AM BREAKING MY HEART. Accompanied by a sound piece composed by the artist, the video recounts a deeply personal, yet collective endurance of existing with the rollercoaster of emotions each hold within, from grief to hysteria, from exhilaration to numbness– making us whole.
