Majlinda Hoxha

You remember too much, 

My mother said to me recently. 

Why hold onto all that? And I said, 

Where can I put it down?

  

–Anne Carson Glass, Irony and God 

These photographs, captured in the wake of a storm in 2015, offer intimate portraits of the artist's mother during a deeply emotional time. Taken shortly after her mother had lost her own mother, the images reflect a tender moment of connection, where the artist felt her mother’s gaze reaching back at her. In Hoxha's work, themes of displacement, fragmentation, and loss are central, evolving into reflections on identity and otherness. Through a visual language of disarray, she weaves together objects, images, and memories to express the transformation of home into the unfamiliar, where the once-comforting becomes estranged.