In his project 'Happiness', (2001), for example, he relays the image of a Kosovar Albanian who, in rapt gratitude, throws himself on the vehicle that supposedly belongs to his liberators, the NATO troops. The man has in fact thrown himself onto the car of an unsuspecting Sky News team entering Gjakova the day after the war. NATO troops had not yet made it near the city. The work capturing, as the artist describes it, "a burst of basic emotions for the unbelievable, the unexpected" poignantly opens up the tension between human desire and belief."

Shkelzen Maliqi

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