Catalogue > At random

This two channel video installation is an introduction to what is happening in the West Bank, between Palestinians and the Israeli army. This video installation is designed to narrate the everyday reality of the Palestinians at large through the micro example of the city of Hebron and its resistance to the Israeli army. In order to be able to develop this narrative, the artist traveled to the region, where he came into contact with Human Rights Defenders, a local group who makes use of the camera and video footage as a tool of peaceful resistance. This video installation contains mostly footage filmed by the artist but includes also other archival materials, allowing this way an insight into the Palestinian history and reality. The work explores the role and nature of the camera and video especially in situations of conflicts and oppressions. This work is part of the ongoing series called "Fragments" that he has made, since 2015, in different territories affected by long years of frozen conflicts.

Vangjush Vellahu was born in 1987 in Pogradec, Albania and currently lives and works between Tirana and Berlin. In his work he is interested in travel as a medium to collect and tell stories. His works intertwine urban histories of entities that from an ideological and political stand point remain on the margins of recognition. In 2018 he published his first travelogue “Fragments I - Where stories cut across the land” that came along with his video solo show with the same title. His works have been exhibited, among others at: Times Art Center, Berlin, DE; Museu d´Història de Catalunya, Barcelona, ES; Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka, HR; Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana, SI; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, DE; State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, GR; Museum of Contemporary Art, Acri, IT; National Gallery of Arts, Tirana, AL; National Historical Museum, Tirana, AL; National Gallery, Prague, CZ; etc.