The Albanian artist who brought Roma culture to the international contemporary art scene

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Sead Kazanxhiu is an artist from Albania who expresses his Roma identity in visual art. Through his work, Roma culture, history and traditions have been seen in installations and performances at international level.

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00:00Every line of art is artist.

00:02It's talent, it's artist for me.

00:30Folea is a very strong metaphor for me,

00:35but at the same time, it's an institution.

00:37It's an institution which, for me, Romes,

00:40has many of them.

00:41It's only an institution for me,

00:43it's a family.

00:45The family has been an institution

00:47where we have cultivated all the fields,

00:50the laws and the culture of ours.

00:52It's also an art.

00:55Sert's family and his Roma background

00:57played a huge role in shaping him as an artist.

00:59As a teenager, he was reluctant

01:01to make his Roma identity known

01:03to his classmates at art school.

01:05So, his father, a well-known Roma activist

01:08and the first teacher of the Roma language in Albania,

01:10did it for him.

01:12I told you that you have to consider yourself

01:15because you have the fact

01:17that you have the same role in your class.

01:20There are not any kids,

01:23there are not any kids,

01:25but for me, it was the same situation

01:27that you have to consider yourself.

01:29When I was a kid,

01:30I was a kid,

01:31but I was a kid,

01:32because of that,

01:33I was not a kid.

01:35I was not a kid.

01:36I was not a kid,

01:37until I was a kid.

01:38When I was a kid,

01:39I was a kid.

01:40But for me,

01:41I was not a kid.

01:42I was a kid,

01:43I was a kid,

01:44and I was a kid,

01:45and I was a kid,

01:46and I was a kid,

01:47but I was not a kid.

01:50I was a kid,

01:51because I worked for this cause,

01:53to change,

01:54to transform the life of the community.

01:57Today,

01:58he is proud of his roots,

01:59and he is himself a Roma role model,

02:01who keeps Roma traditions alive through his work,

02:04like in the performance Mudding,

02:06where he expressed his community's commitment

02:08to preserving its pure nature.

02:10I moved my mother to work together with a few villages,

02:14which, in my mind,

02:17were improvisated,

02:18and she would like me to work with the ball.

02:22We have the ball against me,

02:23which is a very specific ball,

02:27and in a sense,

02:28that is called Shishik,

02:29or in the Albanian,

02:30which is more money used by the Rhomans,

02:34as a powder for the children,

02:36and for the families to take care.

02:38He was not a future.

02:41He was like, I would say, and he was like a costume.

02:45He was like a sculptor.

02:51Through his art, Sed educates, informs, provokes and changes perspectives.

02:56He also includes other Roma people in his art projects.

03:01Gjeric 2013-2014 karimaktia problematik

03:06me forts, por skak të ndryshimeve urbanistike,

03:11shumë Roma ka ngellur pa banesat e tyre,

03:14dhe cfar kam kërjuar një shtëpiz,

03:17e cilë ashtë 5-5 cm,

03:20dhe kanftuar antar të komunitetit,

03:24e cilët kanë qënë të përfshirë nga qështja estrehimit.

03:28that we have taken and taken the money for the Prime Minister.

03:48What is important is the impact that this is in a cohort.

03:54The food is the consumption that you consume and will have time to absorb it.

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