Abetare, Petrit Halilaj

The Roof Garden Commission

David Breslin, Iria Candela

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Metropolitan Museum of Art
20 August 2024

Art & design styles: from c 1960; Installation art; Individual artists, art monographs

Series: The Roof Garden Commission

This exploration of Petrit Halilaj's site-specific installation reflects the artist's personal experience as a refugee of war and the universal hopes and fears captured in children's drawings

Petrit Halilaj (b. 1986, Kosovo) is known for installations that draw on his personal experiences of uprooting, trauma, and disorientation. In his first major outdoor installation, Halilaj explores the intersection of reality and fantasy through the rich world of children's drawings. This volume examines Halilaj's inspirations from inscriptions, carvings, and scribbles that he discovered on desks at his former primary school. Halilaj catalogued these doodles—a record of children's fantasies, fears, and private messages conveyed in many languages. An interview with Halilaj connects his practice with European artists of the 60s and 70s and details how memory, desire, identity, and the history of his native country present in his work. This publication reveals Halilaj's installation to be at once a story of children in a time and place marked by social and political conflict and a universal reflection on youthful imagination, hopes, yearnings, anxieties, and dreams.

By: David Breslin, Iria Candela
Imprint: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 184mm, Width: 108mm,
ISBN: 9781588397768
ISBN 10: 1588397769
Series: The Roof Garden Commission
Pages: 64
Publication Date: 20 August 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

David Breslin is Leonard A. Lauder Curator in Charge of the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Iria Candela is Estrellita B. Brodsky Curator of Latin American Art in the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.