Text by Holly Knowles Valentine Hall, Hamrun, July 12th, 2017: A dark haired woman in a long white dress stands outside the front doors on a hot pavement. It is 6.55pm and the sunlight is at ankle level, flickering over her silver platform shoes. She smokes a cigarette as “(Today I Met) The Boy I’m Gonna Marry” by Darlene Love plays in the background. Her carefully made up eyes follow the traffic. Summer, 1986, Valletta: A dark haired girl in a long […]

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The sound of chains. The sound of some solid object dragging across a pavement. Slow steps. As we watch the video, we see a pair of white Reebok classics cast in plaster, in rough art-school style. They are dragged across the ground, leaving white traces on the pavement of an early-morning, deserted Sainsbury supermarket parking lot. The Reebok plaster casts are attached to the ankles of a person with chains. This person is wearing plastic Adidas slippers, white socks, a […]

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A tower with a plank facing outwards … John is confused. John is on holiday in Malta, and on this glorious sunny October Sunday afternoon, he goes to the popular sandy beach of Ghajn Tuffieha. Suddenly, he spots the tower – his curiosity walks him to the cliff edge, overlooking the neighbouring Ghajn Tuffieha bay. In front of the Ghajn Tuffieha watchtower, a beautiful young woman approaches John and invites him to have a look inside. John startles – it […]

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For the upcoming FRAGMENTA-event on October 23rd, Maltese artist Aaron Bezzina will present new objects and a site-specific installation entitled “Memento Mori: Hints Taken From Terror Management Theory”. All presented works take their point of departure from Terror Management Theory (TMT), which claims that culture and art provide meaning in an insecure world by being a manifestation of concerns with our own mortality. Photo Credit: Still from “Flight From Death”, a documentary about “The Denial of Death” by Ernest Becker. […]

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