Donat Prekorogja (b. 1999) is a Swiss-Kosovar artist based in Geneva. He holds a BFA from HEAD – Geneva and is currently completing his MFA (work.master) at the same institution. His work has been exhibited at the 9th Swiss Triennial of Sculpture, Galerie Heinzer Reszler, and he has presented a solo exhibition in Geneva at Le Vélodrome.

My eyes have always been drawn to things in motion, in search of those moments when time is suspended around a rhythm. It’s in the poetry that flows from these frozen moments that I’ve discovered a desire to provoke my own timeouts, in which dynamism, vibration and variation capture our gaze and give life to the inanimate.

My pieces occupy space, transforming it, linking into lines of force, breaking symmetry or playing with it, inviting us to question them from different points of view, proposing incoherence or continuity, creating a frenetic visual language. They are made of a variety of materials, including machined or reclaimed wood, cardboard and metal, often painted, sometimes left out.

Drawing from urban and domestic spaces, I explore their contrasts and the phenomena of pareidolia, through which I propose narratives that animate what is still. These narratives draw on a multiplicity of techniques, shifts in scale, contrasts in tone, wavering between seriousness and lightness, and languages of form, oscillating between curves and lines.

Through these interventions, I reveal the poetry that can emerge from a curve, a color, an old piece of furniture, a bizarre stain, a surprising trace, a lamppost, a building, a…

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