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Erdiola Kanda Mustafaj - Fryj, të fryshë, frymë. It's just a touch?
Fryj, të fryshë, frymë. It’s just a touch? is a ritual workshop by Erdiola Kanda, inspired by her Vlach heritage. Drawing from her grandmother’s stories, Kanda guides participants through a ritual of breath, memory, and transmission over three evenings. Each session includes an incantation, ancestral words, and Kanda’s own writing, reactivating the past and creating a space where generations meet in silence.
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Erdiola Kanda Mustafaj - Fryj, të fryshë, frymë. It's just a touch?
Fryj, të fryshë, frymë. It’s just a touch? is a ritual workshop by Erdiola Kanda, inspired by her Vlach heritage. Drawing from her grandmother’s stories, Kanda guides participants through a ritual of breath, memory, and transmission over three evenings. Each session includes an incantation, ancestral words, and Kanda’s own writing, reactivating the past and creating a space where generations meet in silence.
Fryj, të fryshë, frymë. It’s just a touch? is a ritual workshop by Erdiola Kanda that examines fictional genealogies and Vlach purification traditions. Rooted in her Vlach heritage, Kanda draws inspiration from interviews with her grandmother to craft a ritual that unfolds at sunset, near the sea. Over the course of three evenings, participants engage in an intimate ritual centered on breath, memory, and transmission. Each session follows a structured sequence: a whispered incantation (bisbiglio), a recitation of ancestral words, and a final invocation of Kanda’s own writing.
As a memetic replication of poses, this repetitive act invokes a certain reverence, also presented here as a “gesture of alternative knowledge or counter-memory”.
Participants receive the ritual becoming vessels for a lineage of purification and storytelling, reactivating the past in the present and creating an imaginary place where far generations can meet, through silence.
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Erdiola Kanda Mustafaj
Erdiola Kanda Mustafaj is an albanian/italian multi-disciplinary artist currently based in Paris. Through a combination of visual and media art, from installation to sound art, she creates imaginary landscapes that embody the indistinct and elusive dimension of societies, places and historical events, with poetic attention to politics and particularly meditating on the significance of diaspora. In her research she appropriates and rewrites sources from personal archives and collective memories to discuss the intellectual and political history of her country, in a narrative that is intertwined with oral tradition, myth and fairy tale. Her works are mainly articulated in a deeply relationship with the space, and its transformation, in which raw material and human create a connection, inseparable, shaping each other without hierarchies of values.
Her work has been shown in several institutional exhibitions including: Solo exhibition at Kunst- im-kreuzgang (Bielefeld, Germany, 2025). Group shows at Luigi Ghirri Prize for Fotografia Europea (Reggio Emilia, 2025), Ardhje 2024 Prize, Young Visual Artists Award, organised by Zeta Gallery (Tirana, Albania, 2024), “Rencontres de la jeune photographie internationale” curated by François Cheval at Villa Pérochon (Niort, France, 2022), and “Beyond the image” promoted by Shkodra Arthouse and Marubi Museum (Shkodër, Albania, 2019).
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Port of Durrës
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Dates and times
April 16 to 18, from 19:00 to 20:00
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EXPERIENCES On board
Immersive exhibition "Présentes
Created with the exceptional collaboration of the Musée du Louvre, this exhibition highlights female figures in Mediterranean civilization, thanks to the digitization and modeling of part of the Louvre's collections. A two-stage experience: an introductory film to provide context, followed by an immersive experience in a 16-meter-long tunnel covered by 120 m2 of LED screens.
A sound journey through the Mediterranean
An immersive sound experience designed by Ircam, inviting the public to explore the richness and diversity of the Mediterranean through headphones equipped with spatialized sound.
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The artists
Erdiola Kanda Mustafaj
Erdiola Kanda Mustafaj is an Albanian-Italian multidisciplinary artist currently based in Paris.
Combining visual and media arts, from installation to sound art, she creates imaginary landscapes that embody the indistinct and elusive dimension of societies, places and historical events, with a poetic attention to politics and a particular meditation on the importance of diaspora. In her research, she appropriates and rewrites sources from personal archives and collective memories to discuss the intellectual and political history of her country, in a narrative interwoven with oral tradition, myth and fairy tale. His works are based primarily on a profound relationship with space and its transformation, in which raw material and man create an inseparable bond, shaping each other without a hierarchy of values.
Frequently asked questions
Yes, the boat is freely accessible on site. However, you can pre-book your time online on our website.
For reasons of safety and preservation of the boat, high heels and stilettos may not be worn on the boat.
The museum boat is open to all free of charge. To find out on which quay it will be moored, or to pre-book your slot, consult the page dedicated to your town.
Appropriate facilities have been set up on the Festival site for the reception and access of people with reduced mobility. The boat is equipped with a 1m-wide ramp, accessible to people with reduced mobility, but may require the accompaniment of a third party due to its gradient of over 6%. Access to the aft deck and immersive exhibition is possible. However, the upper deck is not accessible. Please inform us in advance of any special accessibility requirements, so that we can make the necessary arrangements.