Shqipe Mehmeti
Selector / Curator
Shqipe Mehmeti was born in 1981, Kicevo, Macedonia. In 2004 graduated from the Faculty of fine arts in Skopje and in 2007 post-graduated in graphic art at the same faculty. From 2000 has participated in more than 150 group exhibitions in Macedonia, Albania, Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia, Bulgaria, Romania, Poland, Germany, Croatia, Italy, Spain, Turkey, Egypt, Czech Republic, Lithuania and France. She has 25 solo exhibitions in Skopje, Sofia, Paris, Berlin, Nuremberg, New York, Pristina, Visby. Since 2005 she has been a member of DLUM (Association of Fine Artists of Macedonia). Since 2010 Member of the Society of Artists "Shiroka Staza" Zemun, Serbia and since 2019 member of ICOM-Macedonia (International council of museums).
She works in the National gallery of North Macedonia as art conservator. In 2013-2015 attended international training program “Local democracy and social sustainability with a gender perspective” organized by Swedish International Centre for Local Democracy.
Title: “SILANCE”
Tecnuque: Dry point and pencil (mixed media)
Dimention: 50x70cm
Year: 2018
In her latest work, Shqipe Mehmeti is motivated to show the feminist story even in a more pronounced manner because she lives in a society where women and their needs are considered taboo even in the 21st century.
People are still locked in sterile social frames, where pointing fingers to another is the main activity, while accusation is everyday contemplation.
Local women are still considered only an instrument of human reproduction, someone who has to continue the family or clan line, someone who is deprived of the right of personal choice, of own desires, of freedom of speech and even of freedom of action.
By means of her artistic end considerations, this female artist directly addresses issues related to the needs and nature of women, being the same for every woman, and even for those women living in the less developed and patriarchal communities as such.
Although confronting the accusers and taboo advocates is not easy, direct reaction, nevertheless, represents the best tool in the struggle for "freedom from the shackles and clutches" and the need for unrestricted "flight."
