Mirazh

Mirazh is an exploration of the Vjosa National Park in Albania, where the promise of protection confronts an enduringly conflicted relationship between humans and nature. The series questions what is presented as visible and certain - narratives, symbols, assurances - and what remains unstable beneath them.

The Vjosa, Europe’s last great wild river, flows between Greece and Albania. In 2023, its designation as a “national park” affirmed the idea of a preserved landscape. The river became an image of integrity, a sign of possible balance.

Yet that balance remains exposed. Economic pressures, territorial uses, and extractive logics continue to move through the landscape. Protection exists, but it coexists with other forces.

The series draws from local mythology while engaging with contemporary tensions. It circulates ambiguous signs, where reality and its representation begin to merge.

Mirazh thus questions the way we love nature : a sincere attachment, yet one often shaped by images, projections, and reassuring narratives. Between the desire to preserve and the impulse to transform, between declaration and denial, emerges a relationship in which illusion can serve to avoid confronting what is vanishing.

The bond with the river is neither pure nor stable. It exists within a fragile equilibrium - that of a mirage we choose to believe in.