Vullnet Jakupi is a multidisciplinary artist and curator from Prishtina, working primarily in installation and video. His practice combines history and personal storytelling to explore fragmented memories, abandoned spaces, and memory held in the body. Through his exploration of resilience and emotional experiences, Jakupi examines the traces that historical events leave on the human body and the surrounding environment. His work seeks new visual ways to express experiences that might otherwise fade from memory.<\/p>\n
What Did They Whisper on Their Way into the Unknown?<\/em> is an installation by Vullnet Jakupi exhibited at Reporting House. It explores the resilience of Albanian schoolchildren and university students during the 1990s, when Albanian-language education was banned in public institutions and moved into private homes, shops, and basements. Despite repression under the Milo\u0161evi\u0107 regime, classes in Albanian continued in approximately 8,100 spaces converted into makeshift schools. Suspended above the escalators of the former G\u00ebrmia<\/em> department store, the installation evokes the daily uncertainty faced by students, who often took back roads and roundabout routes to reach their classrooms. The work highlights the parallel education system sustained by families, teachers, and students in Kosovo throughout a decade of exclusion from public institutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Vullnet Jakupi is a multidisciplinary artist and curator from Prishtina, working primarily in installation and video. His practice combines history and personal storytelling to explore fragmented memories, abandoned spaces, and memory held in the body. Through his exploration of resilience and emotional experiences, Jakupi examines the traces that historical events leave on the human body […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":5927,"template":"","reporter_type":[79,21],"reporter_location":[23],"class_list":["post-5928","reporters","type-reporters","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","reporter_type-artist","reporter_type-contributor","reporter_location-kosovo"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reportinghouse.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reporters\/5928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reportinghouse.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reporters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reportinghouse.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/reporters"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reportinghouse.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reporters\/5928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5929,"href":"https:\/\/reportinghouse.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reporters\/5928\/revisions\/5929"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reportinghouse.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reportinghouse.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"reporter_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reportinghouse.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reporter_type?post=5928"},{"taxonomy":"reporter_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reportinghouse.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reporter_location?post=5928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}