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Laura Besançon’s ‘Playful Futures’: ‘A kind of visual orchestra, a shared moment’ Maltese-French multidisciplinary artist Laura Besançon on her exhibit ‘Playful Futures’ in conversation with Audrey Jandin 17 May 2021, 9:57am by Matthew Vella After being forced to be suspended during the lockdown the exhibitions are back for all to enjoy. Laura Besançon is a Maltese-French multidisciplinary artist delighted to exhibit ‘Playful futures’ with six international guest artist until 6th June at Valetta Contempory. The exhibition includes photography, photographic-sculptural work, moving image and participatory-based works. Playful Futures is a bid to refresh our perspectives and attitudes towards ever changing contexts beyond our control. It questions the parallels drawn between the interrelationship between the state of mind and destructive manifestations of untamed landscapes. A more utopian and sometimes even a humorous perspective i ....
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. ....