MAY 25 IS NOW OCTOBER 1 by Bardhi Haliti

‘May 25 is now October 1’ is an extensive research across Kosovar newspapers published between 1974 and 2018. The book documents sports activities that took place in seven identical sports halls in seven cities of Kosovo. The images have been cropped, zoomed in on, and paired together by similarity. The choreography is not meant to render them jewels or treasures, but rather to help find their meaning beyond their meaning within the now unfashionable sports halls. Through repetition, the images and texts reveal the multifunctional nature of community space in which larger sociopolitical and cultural cycles are reflected.

Bardhi Haliti is a Kosovar graphic designer and researcher. He worked as a freelance designer in New York and Prishtina before obtaining a master’s degree from the Werkplaats Typografie, Arnhem in 2014. He was a designer in residence at the Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht from 2015–16. In 2011, Haliti cofounded REDO, an annual international graphic design event in Prishtina, and since 2013 serves as its program director. He lives in Amsterdam.