Anri Sala’s works provide a co-ordinated experience in which video, light and sound play their part in the opening of space. He works by ‘improvising rules yet not letting them become a contract’, a matter ‘of de-railing without having rails’. Sound and light displace speech and representation. He releases the voice and the gaze. It is always compelling. His work often engages with spatial and political issues (Dammi i Colori, 2003 and 1395 Days Without Red, 2011, made in collaboration with Liria Begeja, a collaborative film project with Šejla Kamerić).
Sala studied art at the Albanian Academy of Arts (1992–96) and video at the Ecole Nationale des Arts Décoratifs, Paris and film direction in Le Fresnoy-Studio National des Arts Contemporains, Tourcoing. His forthcoming solo show
in 2012 is at the Pompidou Centre, Paris.