Lori Lako's 'Rememory' at ME Vannucci Explores Technology and National Symbols

From May 31 to July 31, 2026, Galleria ME Vannucci in Pistoia presents 'Rememory', a solo exhibition by Albanian artist Lori Lako (b. 1991, Pogradec). The show investigates contemporary power structures through technological archaeology and the manipulation of national identity symbols. It features hand-woven kilims that merge nationalist icons from flags into fantastical chimeras, challenging symbolic rigidity. An installation of damaged smartphone screens reveals Cold War satellite secrets, drawing parallels between orbital surveillance and today's digital self-exposure. An AI-generated video reanimates an Italian family's 1978 political pilgrimage to ideological Albania, made possible by Communist Party membership. Graphic series use cyanotype shifting to sepia to narrate betrayed promises of the Y2K utopia, while anastatic prints strip propagandistic fabrics of their softness, turning military garments into paper artifacts that expose bodily vulnerability. The exhibition includes a text by Stefania Rispoli. The term 'rememory' is borrowed from Toni Morrison's novel 'Beloved' (Pulitzer Prize 1988), describing the persistence of the past in space.