Comprising a group of five paintings, one sculpture, and one video, the presentation explores a sense of incompleteness. Each work bears traces of absence – a subtle removal of essential elements – yet this very lack affirms their existence. They stand before us with a renewed, uncertain presence, poised between two worlds, two states of being.

For the eponymous Wings series, Sem Lala collected various national air forces’ military emblems, roundels and coats of arms. He removed all identifying marks that could link the signs back to national identity and then randomized the color.

Foundation Pit links two flagpoles together in place of their respective banners. They are a bit like partial flags that, instead of reproducing the meaning of a flag, loop back into their base.

While the wings play around with the signifying remainders of spliced emblems, the flagpoles remain at the level of being unrealized. In some sense, one is too late, and the other is too early. While also echoing the current geopolitical revolution we’re witnessing.

Untitled, is a found porn video of someone masturbating in the dark, with the brightness turned up at the maximum. The move from total darkness to complete saturation and overexposure skipped visibility. The intervention makes the video glow in the dark of its literal meaning. Something about it is again too early and too late.

Born in 2000 in Elbasan, Albania
Lives in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, USA

EDUCATION
2022—2026
BA, Bard College, New York

SOLO AND DUO EXHIBITIONS
2025
Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw, PL (solo)

2024
Forde, Geneva, CH (duo with Sitara Abuzar)
Hot Wheels Athens, Athens, GR
Flipside, Liste, Basel, CH (presented by Hot Wheels)

2021
Plymouth Rock, Zurich, CH (solo)