Fatjona Matraku 

My artistic practice inhabits the fragile space where memory becomes vibration, where silence becomes a form of knowledge, and where identity resurfaces through the smallest resonances of thehuman soul. 

I work at the threshold between music, memory and displacement. My family’s history, marked by exile, fracture, disappearance and survival, lives within me like an internal archive of breaths, rituals and unspoken stories. These inheritances circulate through bodies, through accents, through songs carried across borders. 

My artistic language extends beyond the piano, toward narrative, gesture, visual shadows and ancestral echoes. The piano is my first organ of memory, yet my practice is an ecosystem where history, identity, body and myth coexist. In performance, 

I seek to awaken what has been buried yet still vibrates, the broken stories of exiles, the tenderness of what survives despite everything. 

My work is a form of constructive resistance, transforming vulnerability into structure, trauma into transmission and silence into collective remembrance. 

Between France and the Balkans, between archives and landscapes, between light and shadow, I create spaces where the intimate becomes universal and where communities recognize their reflection in one another. 

My artistic practice also focuses on the relationship between music, memory and identity, with a commitment to preserving and transmitting intangible cultural heritage. 

Through performance, research and interdisciplinary creation, I explore how art can contribute to social cohesion, intercultural dialogue and the preservation of vulnerable traditions. 

I engage with themes such as collective memory, displacement, resilience and cultural continuity, and I collaborate with communities, researchers and cultural institutions to document, reinterpret and disseminate musical heritage within a contemporary European framework. 

I consider art as a tool for cultural diplomacy, capable of fostering understanding, strengthening regional cooperation and creating shared spaces for dialogue. 

My objective is to build bridges between cultures, generations and territories, contributing to a more inclusive and interconnected European cultural landscape.