Selmani is one of the three awarded authors for "Most Successful Author and Work" at last year's 13th International Biennial of Young Artists, and the award includes the realization of an independent project at the Museum of Contemporary Art - Skopje. Before him, the other two awarded authors, Natasha Nedelkova and Darko Aleksovski, exhibited independently this year.

Presenting a diverse and site-specific intervention in the space of MSU-Skopje, the exhibition of textual works, objects, and video attempts to establish new relationships within the given context, clearly demonstrating the ways in which Selmani wittyly uses a specific form of humor to explore and question everyday life, which is usually tied to absurd traditions and hierarchical structures.

Selmani's broad range of works, which focus on various issues of our precarious modernity, ranging from popular culture to the dominant discourses of power that shape our lives, also question historical narratives, stereotypes, and the sense of belonging and exclusion.

Driton Selmani's works are always constructed as an imaginary dialogue, with the audience, but also with himself, as a series of short statements or rhetorical questions, opening new perspectives for our understanding of the self, of the common, and of the various aspects of contemporary life.

The very title of the exhibition clearly shows how Selmani uses unexpectedwith settings and irony – a twist on a Berber proverb, with a reference to a verse from one of his favorite poetic works, "The Stranger" (L’Etranger) by Charles Baudelaire. In fact, he intentionally seeks and finds the points where language breaks, where it opens a gap, a crack between things, words and the newly constructed image, transforming the familiar into a strange unique situation, and then returns again from the fictional to an understanding of the everyday.

Intervening in the realm of language, from ancient folk wisdom to poetry and children’s songs, Selmani’s practice touches on the fears, anxieties and concerns expressed by ordinary people. He aims to deconstruct deep structures and internalized cultural constructs in order to understand them, offering us a unique opportunity to stand together and confront powerful visual works with masterful simplicity. Being in this state of uncanny where the poetic and the political intersect, he is by no means a stranger. On the contrary, it is precisely here that he finds his home.

The curators of the exhibition are: Vladimir Jancevski, Iva Dimovski and Blagoja Varošanec.