Blerta Kambo about VISION
• – • AGIMI Art Center
About the speaker
Blerta Kambo is an Albanian artist, photographer, and cinematographer based in Tirana. Her personal projects follow a conceptual approach, focusing on themes of social and environmental justice, archives, multiple truths/fiction, ecofeminism, and architecture integrated into space, expressing hidden narratives within social contexts.
Her 16-year commercial experience includes documentary, architectural, and political photography (including as a photographer for Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama), as well as advertising, corporate, and fashion photography. In 2019, she studied cinematography at the London Film School (UK), and she is currently working more with moving images, both in documentary/fictional narratives and video art.
In 2023, she was a finalist for the Circa Prize in London, UK, with her video performance “Gur i rëndë” ("Heavy Stone"). Her latest project, Man of the Castle, a contemporary allegory of gender justice and feminism in defence of men, was exhibited twice in Tirana this year. She is a member of AWA (Albanian Women in Audiovisual) and the Feminist Collective (Albania). Blerta is also a 2024 LINA fellow with the Kosovo Architecture Foundation.
Local partners
Bashkia e Tiranës është një bashki në qarkun me të njëjtin emër. Ajo përfshin kryeqytetin e Shqipërisë si dhe 13 njësi administrative që e rrethojnë.
The Agimi Art Center will come to the public restored with a new contemporary interior special to bring the young people closer in a more comfortable and inspiring environment, leaving spaces dedicated to creativity. Agimi Art Center will now be a joint center of creativity. The various classes that will be offered enable a more comprehensive approach to creativity. Portable cinema chairs will make it possible to use the hall for artistic and cultural activities, conferences, trainings, workshops, artistic exhibitions, etc…
Additional details
For me, Vision is built within oneself, from everything you know, everything you’ve read, and the art you’ve absorbed. It comes from everything that has happened to you, from what you’ve chosen to see and what you’ve chosen to overlook; it doesn’t emerge in a vacuum. To discover your vision is to actively use it. You don’t see yourself, because you have knowledge of the world from within, just like everyone else, like no one else.
