I do not know whether between the mountain and the sea,
there is also a river
2025-2026
Exhibition supported by the Ministry of Tourism, Culture, and Sports of Albania, and the Italian Institute of Culture in Tirana
Work was produced with the financial assistance of the European Union - Goethe Institut
Galerie e Bregdedit, director Elian Stefa
Curatorship Blerta Hoçia

I do not know whether between the mountain and the sea, there is also a river
Solo exhibition / August - September 2026
Curated by Blerta Hoçia
Galerie e Bregdetit

“Being in-between in the work of Italian artist Camilla Cardia functions simultaneously as concept, medium, and creative process. Taking Fernand Braudel’s analysis of the Mediterranean and the mountains as a point of departure, the artist embarks on an almost anthropological journey into the realm of sensations shaped by the terrain, by what it suggests, evokes, or imposes. The Mediterranean landscape becomes a carrier of memory and movement, situated between rock and water, air and earth, permanence and displacement.

Cardia begins her journey in Vlorë, the flat capital of Southern Albania, one of the cities most affected by the Italian occupation between 1939 and 1943, particularly in terms of architectural and urban terms. she then continues toward Theth, to encounter the sincere, majestic, and imposing mountains of Northern Albania, untamed by human control, colonization, diktats, or trends. It is as though this journey unfolds exclusively at a particular moment of the day, under a light that offers only pale colours : a light compromised by the insinuatin of darkness, and a darkness infected by light.
Never complete.
(...)
The exhibition presented at Galeria e Bregdetit consists of the video work bearing the same title, installed across two interacting channels, once again amphasizing the formation and transformation of the work’s constituent elements. Its meaning is further extended through the photographic series and the sculptural volumes.
Together, the works form a moving cartography that reimagines the landscape not as a backdrop, but as a living social, political, and poetic archive.

In the same way, the works themselves unfold and fold through thousands of transformations; just as do the mountain, the sea, and the river of the title, so too do the land and the history they contain, held within an eternal uncertainty, riding the waves of both matter and spirit.”

Blerta Hoçia, extrait from the curatorial statement