Verkligheten is proud to present “Now”, an exhibition by the Albanian artist Suela Qoshja. Suela Qoshja works in a wide variety of techniques featuring installations, photography and painting. Many of her art works focus on the enormous changes that are taking place in Albania today. One big change is of course democracy and an opening up to the world. But this has also led to other changes: emigration, trafficking, instability in politics and economics. Suela Qoshja, born in Tirane in 1981, has grown up with this enormous transformation going on all around. Her photographic series, Avenue of the Stars, is dedicated to one of Albania's worst social plagues of the last 10 years - the trafficking of women. The photographs were taken just a few days after the artist's neighbour was trafficked in Germany. The curator of Sweet Taboos: A Mini Tirana Biennale in New York, Edi Muka, describes the images as a mix of the classical standards of beauty with the blatant discrimination of women as a social class. The girl in all photographs meets your gaze with wide open eyes, eyes that follow you in every corner of the room. Between the elegant leaves of flowers that she is holding and the heavy make-up of her face, a subtle sense of innocence permeates the whole series.