Rama from Vila 31: This space will be used to do the things that Enver Hoxha dreaded
2025-01-16 17:44:43
TiranaPost
Prime Minister Edi Rama, present at the opening of the villa of former dictator Enver Hoxha as a residence for the arts, emphasized the importance of the newly transformed space. Rama described this environment as a place where artists can meet, create and collaborate, having the opportunity to share a common space, while maintaining their individual areas for creativity.
Rama: That this space be used to do the things that Enver Hoxha would have dreaded more than anything else. That has actually been the driving motto in our minds. Whatever we do there, we should make Enver Hoxha turn in his grave with regret. If there was anything that made the dictatorship completely cruel, it was every expression of what they called modernist degeneration. This will be a house of modernist degeneration. There is nothing more beautiful than for young artists from all over the world to use this space. You have the crimes in the Gjethe museum, you have Bunkarti. We are working on the persecution museum in Shkodra.
Whatever water you give to a donkey, you give it at the wrong temperature. When we did Bunkart, hysteria broke out that the past was coming back. For the second one, they went with picks and two fingers to collapse the bunker. The statue of Stalin and Lenin was put up as a gesture of irony itself, uuuu, whatever you do here. We made this choice, we made the right choice. It came as the result of a long time of reflection. Reusing history by mocking it but without erasing it, is the most mature and healing thing with the past.
