Aulona Hoti is an artist from Kosovo whose painting practice dialogues between memory, nature, and time. Her early life experiences have shaped her work to portray sustained attentiveness to landscape, light, and atmosphere as a group of elements that define perception. Her physical distance from her homeland has become part of her lived experience; memory appears as a central axis in the artistic process, functioning as an emotional anchor and as a means of connection to place, history, and identity.

Drawing from fragments of her everyday life, her paintings appear as containers of memories that carry significant emotional weight. The scenes she portrays as still images resemble film stills, where presence and absence coexist. Influenced by the cinema of Andrei Tarkovsky, Hoti approaches painting as a way of consolidating time, working through layers of transparency, stillness, and subtle shifts of light. Her work invites slow contemplation, allowing viewers to enter a quiet visual space that remains open to personal interpretation, where individual memories can intersect with collective experiences.
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AULONA HOTI



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“Some sort of pressure must exist; the artist exists because the world is not perfect. Art would be useless if the world were perfect, as man wouldn’t look for harmony but would simply live in it. Art is born out of an ill-designed world.”
― Andrei Tarkovsky