Gjergj Luca’s « ominous » prophecy for Berisha’s fatal loss in elections, foretold with art and ironic with a graphite

Gjergj Luca has never claimed to be Cassandra, Nostradamus or Baba Vanga. But in his special way and with a subtle instinct to read social and political tendencies, he has managed to predict what many did not have the courage to say out loud: the end of a political era represented by the figure of Sali Berisha.

In a video released by Luca himself, he returns to a graphite made a year ago on one of the walls of his seafood processing plant. « Don’t confuse me with Mrs. Mary who makes the horoscope, but I’m also predictive. Here you have a voice and painting what I said with art a year ago … » he writes with a dose of irony, but also with conviction in his vision.

Graffiti is entitled « Vetting from God », a phrase that carries a dual meaning: as a divine judgment, but also as a natural process of overthrowing the political past, which no longer manages to represent the new aspirations of Albanian society. In the center of Mural is the cartoon figure of Sali Berisha, described as an octopus with many tentacles trying to maintain and control the people around him. The symbolism is clear: a man who seeks to include everything, control every corner of the party and political influence, but which eventually seems like a grotesque monster that is struck at the limits of the fall.

Other characters on the mural, represented in blue and white clothing, are figures of opposition politics that appear either captured by his tentacles, or in desperate attempts to get rid of him. Some seem confused, others surrendered, some humble and angry others – a gallery of faces that constitute a visual indictment against a political class consumed and without vision.

This cartoon appearance is a clear and artistic judgment of an opposition that was not only lost but punished. Its loss in the May 11 election was no coincidence, but a punishment, as Luca reads, of a political force that has lost credibility, energy and connection with the reality and hopes of the citizens. « Lord’s Wetting » is not just an artistic title, but a moral revelation for those who have failed to regenerate, purify and represent a worthy alternative.

This graphite is not just a satirical act. It is a prophecy of strong symbolic colors, a way of art to tell the truth that politics often refuses to admit: that the people no longer believe in those who have disappointed it and that change does not come with the recycling of the old, but with the courage to admit that the old must leave.
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