Lala Meredith-Vula: Haystacks

“In August 1988, four days after appearing in the seminal Freeze exhibition with fellow students at Goldsmiths College of Art, Lala Meredith-Vula left London for the Albanian countryside, where she began to photograph haystacks. Asked, “Why haystacks?” she told me that in these agrarian forms she had found “the quintessential artwork.” And if she also wished to reconnect with her homeland—Meredith-Vula was born in Sarajevo, in the former Yugoslavia, in 1966—then such an abstract desire needed to be grounded in the earth. (…)” – text by Monika Szewczyk