Come, but as a Daytime Comet
Christine König Galerie•Oct 24, 2024 — Nov 30, 2024
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With Come, but as a Daytime Comet, Flaka Haliti (*1982 in Prishtina) and Jimmie Durham (1940-2021) summon a survey of identity politics and identity markers through subtle, poetic means, exposing and narrowing the scalar difference between manifestation and erasure.
The title evokes a sense of impending arrival, while reflecting on the almost imperceptible moment between the no longer and the not yet. The awareness of such a moment — as rare as the sighting of a comet in daylight — paired with what can both be perceived as invitation and requirement to an indeterminate corporeal or incorporeal entity, hints at the elusive ambiguity, which unites the conceptual frameworks of Haliti and Durham.
Through Flaka Haliti’s works, enigmatic temporal layers and mechanisms veiling and unveiling prompt questions of causality and the conditions of displacement and liminality as identity-creating and socio-political imperatives. She investigates the paradoxicality between the alien…
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Come, but as a Daytime Comet
Christine König Galerie•Oct 24, 2024 — Nov 30, 2024
Press Release
With Come, but as a Daytime Comet, Flaka Haliti (*1982 in Prishtina) and Jimmie Durham (1940-2021) summon a survey of identity politics and identity markers through subtle, poetic means, exposing and narrowing the scalar difference between manifestation and erasure.
The title evokes a sense of impending arrival, while reflecting on the almost imperceptible moment between the no longer and the not yet. The awareness of such a moment — as rare as the sighting of a comet in daylight — paired with what can both be perceived as invitation and requirement to an indeterminate corporeal or incorporeal entity, hints at the elusive ambiguity, which unites the conceptual frameworks of Haliti and Durham.
Through Flaka Haliti’s works, enigmatic temporal layers and mechanisms veiling and unveiling prompt questions of causality and the conditions of displacement and liminality as identity-creating and socio-political imperatives. She investigates the paradoxicality between the alien…
