Artists

Edi Rama

Press release

Société is pleased to announce Edi Rama's solo exhibition Chrysalizing, the artist's first with the gallery.Edi Rama creates exuberant compositions that embody a symbiosis between art making and politics. At the core of the Albanian Prime Minister's artistic practice are his vivid stream-of-consciousness drawings, produced during meetings in his office, where free, expressive lines unfold alongside the structural demands of political life. These mindscapes act as a springboard for experimentation: biomorphic blots and amorphous shapes evolve into compositions that resist fixed reference or narrative.For Gallery Weekend, Rama will present a series of new bronze sculptures. The works are created by translating his drawings into 3D-printed forms, which are subsequently modeled by hand before being cast in bronze. Reflecting Rama's associative and unstructured approach to art making, his sculptures give full rein to subconscious processes as their primary guiding force. Freed from the immediacy of the drawn line, the works assume weight, volume, and permanence, marking a shift from private notation to public form. Rama will also present his first large-scale outdoor work in the gallery's garden, further extending the movement of his forms from the enclosed space of the office interior into the public realm.