For those who could not make it, or those who could not see it, here an account of what happened today: Gina Levante arrived in time (2:58pm) at St. Paul’s Island to set up her material and take sufficient time to meditate. Over the past years, she has developed a technique, which enables her to levitate inanimate objects, even heavy ones. To do this, she uses a combination of scientific tools and intuitive force. For the Malta-levitation-edition, Gina had decided […]

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Gina Levante is full of surprises – and so is her work. For her first show in Malta, she decided to collaborate with Fragmenta. After an extensive research of the terrain,we decided to execute an installation on St. Paul’s island. This fragile intervention can be viewed from the mainland for about 40 minutes. (This duration is linked to technical issues…. ) Gina’s installations establish a link between the landscape’s reality and that imagined by its conceiver. These works focus on […]

Categories: Levitation

Gina Levante (°1986, Catania, Italy) makes installations, performances, mixed media artworks and conceptual artworks. By manipulating the viewer to create confusion, Levante investigates the dynamics of landscape, including the manipulation of its effects and the limits of spectacle based on our assumptions of what landscape means to us. Rather than presenting a factual reality, an illusion is fabricated to conjure the realms of our imagination. Her works are on the one hand touchingly beautiful, on the other hand painfully attractive. […]

Categories: Levitation