Manuela Gjoka - Bio
Manuela is a Miami based visual artist whose main focus is photography, installation and performance art. She was born and raised in Albania where she studied architecture at Polis University of Architecture and Urbanism. In 2017 she moved to New York to work as and architect and construction project manager while getting her MBA (in project management and marketing). During this time, she has always been interested in photography. Manuela mostly photographed architectural landscape and interiors while always being interested in the transcendental aspect of architecture. This pursuit of the beyond, (beyond the surface), continues nowadays also in her artistic practice
With her photography she strives to create airy imagery using light fabric and additional elements like water.
With her performance pieces she attempts to put down the walls of indifference seeking the attention of the viewer through honesty and by putting herself in vulnerable positions.