Lorina Naci, CURO Summer Research Fellow
Faculty Mentor: Professor William Paul, Jr.
Drawing and Painting
Lamar Dodd School of Art
University of Georgia
"each morning I get up with one word in mind: plastik…"
My artistic work is concerned with two encroaching phenomena that address the legitimacy of my Albanian heritage: Post Communism and globalization. I am interested in the quintessential values of Albanian natives and how some of these values are threatened by the advent of better technologies, faster information flow, and faster lifestyles brought by globalization in my country as well as elsewhere in the world.
By focusing on facial close-ups and on the physiognomy of natives of Albania and of Western Europeans in painting, in film, and in sculptural work, I seek to investigate the identities produced by the different economical, political, and social systems expressed visually in the body as the physical site of the human interaction with the governing system.
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