Lala Meredith Vula

Interview by Jean Wainwright

from Audio Arts Magazine Volume 18 Numbers 3 & 4, 1999

Transcript

Jean Wainwright: I’m with Lala Meredith Vula, looking at her work in the Albanian Pavilion. You’re based in Britain though?

Lala Meredith Vula: Yes, my mother’s British and my father’s from Kosovo and I was invited by the Albanian Government to come and show in the Pavilion, as all my work is based in Kosovo and Albania.

JW: You’ve got a series of large, wonderful black and white photographs taken in a bath.

LMV: I came across the baths and went and washed myself there and I was inspired by the women, who were scrubbing each others’ backs, and the old crumbling architecture. This bath is 500 years old and it reminded me of all the paintings that I’d seen like Degas and Matisse. I was just so inspired that I really wanted to do a piece.

JW: You’ve chosen to work in black and white; why did you make that decision?

LMV: I did it in colour as well but the feeling is more diffused in colour.

JW: I think it’s wonderful because all the work is so different and yet all so passionate.