The joint exhibition BLINK currently on display at Valletta Contemporary showcases the sculptural works of Tom Van Malderen forming the series Home is the new travel and Nigel Baldacchino’s photographic works composing Clear Windows. Each set of works is concerned with perception, whether of objects or of reality, bidding us to look upon the architecture of our lives with fresh eyes.
The works are a play on familiarity in the form of a dialogue between artists – “a manifesto to keep looking at things”. Van Malderen’s pieces, which he describes as “constellations”, are furniture prototypes which he dismantled and reconstructed in a bid to question the usefulness of things, encouraging viewers to project another world and look differently onto the objects in our lives.
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The exhibition Playful Futures currently showing at Valletta Contemporary brings to focus works by Maltese-French artist
Laura Besançon which reflect on our changing landscapes, bidding us to refresh our perspectives and attitudes towards ever-changing contexts beyond our control.
Lara Zammit explores with the artist the works’ underlying themes.
Play is hard to define. It features on many planes of human experience taking multifarious stances. Ever dualistic, it can be subversive and impish, or childlike and naïve, all the while ungovernable.
Playful Futures alludes to play’s many faces as it welcomes viewers into the Valletta Contemporary refuge in the capital city. One of its tasks is to play with perspectives about our built environment, using the power of play to turn monsters into mockeries. Another is to play with our ill-feelings towards our urban graves, urging us to sift through our anger and see what remains.