In her exhibition at la_cápsula Hugging with Brutality, artist Arbesa Musa presents her latest body of work: a collection of 32 porcelain nails, which look like rusted metal and appear hard and heavy, but in reality are light and fragile. Held in workers' tool bags, the objects open reflections about violence, labor and gender roles. Tools, metal, and hard labor like construction are usually referred as very masculine. But for the artist, the feminine is actually characterised by resilience and hard labor under violent conditions, a position similar to the nails she creates. The tool belts or bags, on the other way, simultaneously carry and protect from harm: police gun bags, tool bags for construction tools, etc.

Mutidisciplinary artist Arbesa Musa deals with questions about gender roles, violence, intimacy, memory, home, territory and craft - particularly knowledge passed between women through forms often labeled as "traditional art." Her practice is both a personal archive of shared memory and a collective experience.

​​This exhibition is organised in collaboration with Index Freiraum Stipendium