Sislej Xhafa

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Sislej Xhafa
Sislej Xhafa at Art Basel exhibition (2019)
Born	1970 (age 53–54) Peja, Kosovo, Yugoslavia
Nationality	Kosovo Albanian
Known for	Contemporary art
Notable work	Padiglione Clandestino Albanese (1997); Pleasure our Flower (2000); Again and Again (2000); Y (2011)

Sislej Xhafa (born 1970) is a Kosovar contemporary artist, based in New York.

In a Hatje Cantz Verlag monograph about the artist, art critic Guido Molinari writes "The condition of relentless traveler, throughout the West and beyond, allows Sislej Xhafa to keep in constant touch with current social, economic and aesthetic shifts and pour these back into his own works. The relationship between him and these international mutations is void of any rhetoric or politically correct solutions. It takes shape, rather, through the development of complex, but mainly light, conceptual strategies. Approaching humor at times, by means of a clear-cut point of view reversal or unexpected elaboration on a simple stereotype, the work offers an insight into the core of social unease without triggering rejection mechanisms. Xhafa's aim, indeed, is to give our minds tiny rushes of energy, without the deadlock of excess shock value."^[1]

He is represented by Galleria Continua, San Gimignano / Beijing / Les Moulins / Havana / Rome / São Paulo / Paris / Dubai