My art is a restless dialogue with my inner self that brings out events, experiences and freedom. My works are parts of the narration of personal feelings, a diary of conscious and subconscious experiences, extracted attentively to visually convey them.
My way of narrating is the collage, the conceptual and material stratification, of placement and interweaving of realities and notions in past and present. Fabrics from different ages, cultures and civilizations, of different textures and structures, are the medium of my choice. I create volumes, on which, as in canvas, I paint my story which blends in the history of the medium used.
Najada Hamza’s paintings bring together forms from nature and the body that inform female readings of a personal and lyrical nature. The works are further contextualized by artisan techniques of weaving and sewing that have an historic and contemporary relationship to systems of cultural anxiety in Albania. Within the heavily worked and layered pieces, fabrics and paint gravitate towards the center creating intensive areas of colour and form that act as enclosed and protected spaces.
Charles Danby