Lori Lako's 'Rememory' Weaves Albanian Memory and Digital Glitch

Lori Lako's solo exhibition 'Rememory' at Galleria ME Vannucci in Pistoia runs from May 31 to July 31, 2026. The Albanian-born artist (b. 1991, Pogradec) explores post-socialist memory through kilim weaving, video, analog printing, and multimedia installations. Handwoven kilims merge nationalist symbols from flags into fantastical chimeras, challenging symbolic rigidity. A installation of damaged smartphone screens reveals Cold War satellite secrets, drawing parallels between orbital surveillance and today's digital self-exposure. UV light metaphorically declassifies state secrets, while Albania's presence in these archives evokes paranoia and ideological control. The video 'Ancora estate' animates amateur photographs of Hoxha-era Albania with AI, blending state propaganda with family daily life. Graphic series 'Pixel to Dust' and 'Unmuffled' use cyanotype and anastatic printing to critique technological promises and social control devices. Propaganda fabrics, stripped of original function and transferred to paper, become manifestos of bodily vulnerability and fragile dominant narratives.