ABOUT THE ARTIST

Multidisciplinary artist, photographer, painter, and filmmaker. She was born in 1987 in Gostivar, Macedonia, and is currently based in Belgium. With a rich cultural background shaped by both Albanian and Serbian roots, her identity reflects a deep connection to contrast, complexity, and resilience—elements that permeate every aspect of her work. Elita’s photography focuses primarily on urbex (urban exploration). She explores and documents abandoned, decaying spaces across Europe—hospitals, manors, factories, and forgotten homes—capturing what remains when life has left. Her work is known for its haunting atmosphere, emotional intensity, and unique ability to reveal the presence that lingers in absence. She often risks physical danger to access these spaces, driven by the need to preserve what history leaves behind. Alongside her photography, Elita creates bold, abstract paintings that offer a powerful counterbalance to the quiet decay she captures with her lens. Her canvases are expressive, colorful, and emotionally raw—an extension of her inner world, shaped by movement, emotion, and chaos. They reflect the parts of her story that cannot be told in photographs: the intuitive, the visceral, the unspoken. As a filmmaker, she works on socially conscious, activist-driven projects that aim to educate and challenge. Her films focus on truth-telling, system critique, and human experience—often highlighting the same themes found in her visual art: memory, abandonment, survival, and transformation. Elita Osmani’s body of work is both intimate and confrontational. She is committed to documenting reality without filters, telling untold stories, and giving visual form to what society often ignores or forgets. Through photography, painting, and film, she invites viewers to not only observe—but to feel, question, and remember.