
Lule Maji 2025
bulevard art & media institute is pleased to announce the 4th edition of Lule Maji: A Reservoir of Care, Love, Rebellion.
Woven over two years of conversations between Silvi Naçi and Valentina Bonizzi, and shaped through their expanded work with the community at Aleanca LGBT, A Reservoir of Care, Love, Rebellion is a proposal for a commons shared between local and diasporic communities through art, activism, and the archive. A reservoir is imagined here as a collaborative space—a commons—where we build a language and praxis of solidarity through being present with one another.
The project brings three elements into dialogue: HomeSpace, the first public archive to preserve Albanian queer heritage; the travel iteration of the show Wrapped in the Shadow of Freedom, which explores queerness and its contemporary complexities, first shown in Prishtina in 2024 and organized by Sekhmet Institute; and Posta e Dashurisë, an ongoing weekly gathering focused on communal care through letter writing, artist presentations, and a shared meal.
In response to the current political climate that seeks to weaken practices of care within communities—by defining love, threating trans rights and life, and menacing freedom in the face of poverty, war, and genocide—A Reservoir of Care, Love, Rebellion asserts that, as queer, trans, migrant, and refugee bodies, we are not asking permission to participate in the formulation of new vocabularies and practices; we are taking charge and shaping the revolution together.
The show invites visitors to look closely, listen deeply, reflect, play, experiment, and reformulate grounds where new ontologies can be possible.