JAKUP FERRI – TINTIRINTI
2021-11-29Jip designed the carpets in the digital world of Animal Crossing, a children’s game that allows you to add blocks with the click of a mouse, and create colourful shirts or caps for the characters.
Made of up squares that look like pixels, the carpets are composed of brightly coloured geometric shapes and share the same seeming simplicity as Jakup Ferri’s earlier figurative works: scenes of everyday life poetically captured in pocket-sized drawings.
In his first video works, developed during a residency at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam, Jakup Ferri offered a subtle, endearing and witty self-reflection on the isolation of the non-Western artist trying to hold his own in the Western art world. Ferri is particularly drawn to folk art and traditional artisanal techniques. After returning to his hometown of Prisina in Kosovo, Ferri embarked on collaborations with embroiderers and carpet weavers from Kosovo, villages in Albania, Suriname and Burkina Faso. Using traditional skills and methods, they created productions inspired by his drawings. This collaborative process also supported workshops and traditional crafts whose survival is threatened by capitalist production systems.
Opposite – Installation views
Exhibition runs through to December 11th, 2021
Andriesse ~ Eyck Gallery
Leliegracht 47
1016 GT Amsterdam
The Netherlands
