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The Echoing
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Doruntina
Kastrati


Project title: The Echoing Silences of Metal and Skin Doruntina Kastrati

Curator: Erëmirë Krasniqi
Commissioner: Hana Halilaj

Pavilion of the Republic of Kosovo 60th International Art Exhibition, La
Biennale di Venezia

Organized by the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports of the Republic of Kosovo

Doruntina Kastrati’s sculpture installation The Echoing Silences of Metal and
Skin, Kosovo’s presentation at the 60th International Venice Biennale, addresses
feminized labor and workplace inequities.

The deindustrialization of the economy and deregulation of the labor market in
the aftermath of the 1999 War in Kosovo, generated opportunities for light
industries (e.g., production of food, paper, plastic etc.) to flourish. This
situation created a demand for low-paid and flexible female labor. Engaging in
waged labor has granted women a measure of financial independence and social
participation. Far from emancipatory, the feminisation of labor in light
industries has kept traditional gender roles intact, and by involving little or
no upward mobility, has rendered women economically vulnerable and politically
marginal. 

Kastrati’s project The Echoing Silences of Metal and Skin brings into public
view women’s narratives, who work at the margins of society. Factory work is
repetitive and performed only while standing. In this line of work, close to one
third of women undergo knee replacement surgery; the metal objects surgically
implanted in their knees are material traces of their long working hours
yielding little pay. Intending to prompt reflection on why and how exploitative
labor practices have been able to persist, the artist will do so abstractly,
emphasizing the embodied characteristics of materials, particularly metal.
Loaded with discreet and quiet symbolism, representing estrangement of
working-class women, the project comes together in a web of associations,
references, and stories.

The exhibition opens on 20 April 2024 and runs through to 27 November 2024.

Museo Storico Navale della Marina Militare Riva S. Biasio, 2148,  30122 Venezia
VE, Italy

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Pavilion of the Republic of Kosovo 60th International Art
Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia