Let Me See Your Eyes
TITLE
Let Me See Your Eyes
DIRECTOR
Fani Zguro
COUNTRY
Albania, Italy
YEAR
2009
DURATION
1′
GENRE
Video Art
Let Me See Your Eyes
When I returned to Tirana, I often found myself in unusual circumstances. Most of my friends were still living with their parents, and had one characteristic in common; since they were drug users, they had created a disciplinary relationship with their parents. They were investigated. The parents had built up experience. They knew how to detect whether their children were using drugs or not. They would look at their pupils, for example. If the pupil was dilated, they concluded that the kid had been using cocaine. If it was small, then the drug was heroin... and so on. For me this investigation was the most original subject that had to do with the Cold War. Exactly as in the video “Let Me See Your Eyes,” I have used the parents’ control of their child while he was watching TV. Let me see your eyes!
DIRECTOR BIOGRAPHY - Fani Zguro
Fani Zguro was born in 1977 in Tirana. Lives and works in Tirana and Milan. Zguro has been graduated at the Accademia delle Belle Arti di Brera in Milan (1998–2007). In 2007 he won the International Onufri Prize assigned by the National Gallery of Arts in Tirana; in 2016 the International Mulliqi Prize assigned by the National Gallery of Kosovo in Pristina; the Best Video-Art award assigned by TIFF Tirana and in 2021 Award TOP7 Gallery of ArtVilnius21. Zguro also curated the 14th International Onufri Prize at National Gallery of Arts in Tirana (2016) and in 2017 he was part of the AiR program at Q21 - Museums Quartier in Vienna and Cité Internationale des Arts Paris (2003–2004). Since 2015 he is part of NYC apexart’s jury. His work has been shown at Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin, National Museum of Contemporary Art Bucharest, Musée des Civilisations de l’Europe et de la Mediterranée Marseille, Filmoteca Espanola Madrid, Photo Museum Braunschweig, Ost Anders Festival Nuremberg, Triënnale Kortrijk, 2nd Tirana Biennale, 3rd Mardin Biennial, 4th Young Artists Biennial of Bucharest, 6th Wrong Biennale, 6th Çanakkale Biennial, 7th Edition of the Black-and-White Biennial in Satu Mare, 13th Biennale of Cairo, Ludwig Museum Budapest, Belvedere 21 - Museum für Zeitgenössische Kunst Vienna, Palais Populaire Berlin, the New York Public Library and Centre Pompidou Paris.
- DirectorFani Zguro
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- Project TitleLet Me See Your Eyes
- Project TypeVideo Art
- Completion Date2009
- Country of originAlbania, Italy
- Country of filmingAlbania, Italy
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Fani Zguro
Fani Zguro was born in 1977 in Tirana. Lives and works in Tirana and Milan. Zguro has been graduated at the Accademia delle Belle Arti di Brera in Milan (1998–2007). In 2007 he won the International Onufri Prize assigned by the National Gallery of Arts in Tirana; in 2016 the International Mulliqi Prize assigned by the National Gallery of Kosovo in Pristina; the Best Video-Art award assigned by TIFF Tirana and in 2021 Award TOP7 Gallery of ArtVilnius21. Zguro also curated the 14th International Onufri Prize at National Gallery of Arts in Tirana (2016) and in 2017 he was part of the AiR program at Q21 - Museums Quartier in Vienna and Cité Internationale des Arts Paris (2003–2004). Since 2015 he is part of NYC apexart’s jury. His work has been shown at Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin, National Museum of Contemporary Art Bucharest, Musée des Civilisations de l’Europe et de la Mediterranée Marseille, Filmoteca Espanola Madrid, Photo Museum Braunschweig, Ost Anders Festival Nuremberg, Triënnale Kortrijk, 2nd Tirana Biennale, 3rd Mardin Biennial, 4th Young Artists Biennial of Bucharest, 6th Wrong Biennale, 6th Çanakkale Biennial, 7th Edition of the Black-and-White Biennial in Satu Mare, 13th Biennale of Cairo, Ludwig Museum Budapest, Belvedere 21 - Museum für Zeitgenössische Kunst Vienna, Palais Populaire Berlin, the New York Public Library and Centre Pompidou Paris.