Blerta Hashani at LambdaLambdaLambda – Artforum International

Blerta Hashani’s first solo present, “Ambient,” dissects the idyllic rural panorama and reworks it in twenty-seven small-scale work. Every composition reduces nature to fundamental varieties and features, with distilled landscapes comprised of muted tones of brown and blue. Kodër dhe diell (Hill and Solar) (all works cited 2020) incorporates a scrap of a handwritten letter within the form of a hill. Over the mound, a black solar—an eclipse, maybe?—hangs in an enormous whiteness damaged solely by a burst of vertical black ink traces on the center-left, allusions to dry twigs, a few of nature’s much less photogenic options. Whereas united in composition, the person remedy of every of the weather encourages viewers to learn them independently of each other. Equally, in Bari, kodër, kërmille (Grass, Hill, Snail), the panorama is damaged down into three disconnected elements, disrupting the normal understanding of nature as a secure and unified complete.

Hashani’s curiosity in floor is mirrored in her use of the environmentally pleasant brown jute sack. An on a regular basis object in rural contexts, the material right here offers a background to border the entire artist’s compositions. Inside her pictures, Hashani ceaselessly contains torn items of paper bearing samples of automated writing. The ink markings on the brown scraps by no means convey a concrete which means, however the fragments generate a wealthy visible texture whereas additionally gesturing towards the artist. Rroba (Garments) facilities on an uneventful tableau: a blouse-shaped cut-out branded with an indecipherable scrawl and two easy navy blue traces that stand for a pair of pants. Charged with familiarity and intimacy, the outfit floats within the nonplace of one other white void, imbuing the scene with absence even because the work’s title affirms a presence.

— Erëmirë Krasniqi