Edi Hila: A Tent on the Roof of a Car
We are living in the times of people’s displacement from the south to the north. Emigration is an indicator of great contradictions and differences that exist between these two worlds. In the cycle “A Tent on the Roof of a Car”, there is a reflection taking place about the Tent as the world’s oldest house, considering it as moving architecture; similarly to the car, it is also an object in motion. For the sake of this functional similarity, the metaphor of the tent on the car remains organically connected to the idea of migratory movement. Whereas the tent comes from antiquity in the form of “poetic” thinking, the new aesthetic cannot be anything else but that of the car. Attempting to achieve the highest standards of perfection, Le Corbusier compared the Parthenon to a 1921 sports car. While in the new migratory reality, the Tent comes as a suggestion of a new way of life, as a temporary, unsustainable solution, always in motion.
EDI HILA from: “Edi Hila”, eds. Joanna Mytkowska, Kathrin Rhomberg, Erzen Shkololli. Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2020
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