Postbllok Memorial
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| Postbllok Memorial | |
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| Artist | Fatos Lubonja, Ardian Isufi |
| Year | 2013 |
| Location | Tirana, Albania |
| 41°19′15″N 19°49′12″E / 41.32095°N 19.82010°E | |
The Postbllok Memorial is a work of installation art by writer Fatos Lubonja and artist Ardian Isufi.[1][2]
It is a memorial to the atrocities of the People's Socialist Republic of Albania and opened on March 26, 2013, on Dëshmorët e Kombit Boulevard in Tirana.[3]
Location
[edit]The memorial is located near a statue of Ismail Qemali in the neighborhood where the nomenklatura built their dachas, and in fact is in what was once the garden of the dacha of Mehmet Shehu.[3]
Description and symbolism
[edit]The Postbllok Memorial includes three pieces. One is a set of concrete girders taken from Spaç Prison, where Lubonja was imprisoned for a time. The girders are lined up in a row as they would have been in the halls of the Prison.[4]
The second object is a bunker portion of the memorial, one of the main symbols of the dictatorship.
The third element is a piece of the Berlin Wall, meant to symbolize Albania's isolation, which was a gift from the state government of Berlin to the City of Tirana.[1][3][4]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "U përurua dje memoriali me simbolet e diktaturës "Postbllok" konceptuar nga Ardian Isufi dhe Fatos Lubonja" [The "Postbllok" memorial with the symbols of the dictatorship conceived by Ardian Isufi and Fatos Lubonja was inaugurated yesterday]. Shqip (in Albanian). March 27, 2013. Retrieved 17 October 2020.
- ^ "Galeri fotografike: Përurimi i memorialit për izolimin komunist "Post Blloku"" [Photo gallery: Inauguration of the memorial for communist isolation "Block Post"]. Embassy of Germany in Albania (in Albanian). Archived from the original on 6 October 2013.
- ^ a b c "Tiranë, promovohet "Postbllok", vepra kundër sundimit totalitar" [Tirana, "Postblock" is promoted, the work against totalitarian rule]. Shqiptarja (in Albanian). March 26, 2013. Archived from the original on March 29, 2013. Retrieved 17 October 2020.
- ^ a b "Memoriali "Post- Bllok" nëpërmjet fotove!" [Memorial "Post-Blok" through photos!]. Panorama (in Albanian). March 26, 2013. Archived from the original on March 28, 2013. Retrieved 17 October 2020.