Eros Dibra

Eros Dibra hailing from Shkodër—a city nestled between mountains and lakes—presents works that evoke emotion through a delicate interplay of marks and erasures. Primarily a painter and multimedia artist, Dibra constructs an index of forms deeply r...

Eros Dibra hailing from Shkodër—a city nestled between mountains and lakes—presents works that evoke emotion through a delicate interplay of marks and erasures. Primarily a painter and multimedia artist, Dibra constructs an index of forms deeply rooted in memories, past events, dreams, and the everyday. His oil paintings, such as Figures (2021) and Missing Memories (2022), along with his drawings, fluctuate between abstraction and figuration, achieved through sensitive, almost tactile brushstrokes and softly saturated color fields. These emotionally charged, ambiguous shapes, often painted in obsessive, repetitive series, evoke the darker hues of Albanian folk tales and the rhythmic cadences of Rumi’s poetry, weaving a personal and intimate mythology. Dibra’s work transcends traditional media, as seen in his video installation Alone with the Alone (2014), which delves into themes of alienation, isolation, and displacement within the frameworks of contemporary society and its hierarchical structures. “My creativity,” Dibra explains, “seeks to transform the decomposition of contemporary feelings into interconnected images, words, and gestures, as though governed by an alchemical formula.” Eros Dibra’s emotionally charged works explore memory and identity through repetitive, abstract forms that evoke subconsious and Balkan folklore.