146 Artwork in Albania: The process of transformation from propaganda tool before the 90s to JT tool after the 90s The following paper is divided into four main pillars by chapters. In the first chapter, it brings the theoretical approach based on similar precedents elsewhere. In the second chapter, it illustrates the role of Art as a propaganda tool under communism, with results drawn from more than 600 documents generated by the Central State Archives (AQSH), as well as references by state media before the 90s. In this chapter of importance are also the living testimonies of those nowadays considered dissidents because of their artwork, added to this and the data from the security (sigurimi) files. Meanwhile in the third chapter, as an integral part of this work, data on memorials is presented; movies; exhibitions; books published after the 90s. This chapter can be considered as intensive in the quantitative data obtained from public and private institutions as well as through interviews. However, there is a lack of information from the National Art Gallery about the exhibitions. Even after persistent efforts by asking for information (based on the law on the right to information), the National Gallery of Arts never responded in a four-month waiting period, leaving a void on the initiatives taken by this public institution. Fourth, of importance for this paper, are also public debates as reactions on artworks. Local media monitoring has been an important source on qualitative and quantitative data for this chapter. Overall, the paper is a reflective and critical look aimed at bringing about a truly new approach on the role that artworks played in the transition process in Albania, taking attention through a different form, far from law or study methods: as testimony, as a recognition and compensation of the past damages, but also as a lesson for the present through the past.