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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It all started with a story: “All day long the little boy worked hard in field and barn and shed; but every day, when the work was done, there came an hour which was all his own…” In the story (dated 1903) I am referring to, a poor boy sees Golden Windows every day from his room, and imagines the rich people living behind these glistening windows… The announcement for the FRAGMENTA-event UNTITLED (Ix-Xemx) was clear and ominous at the […]

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DUE TO UNFAVORABLE WEATHER REPORTS THE EVENT HAS MOVED FROM SEP 25TH TO SUNDAY OCTOBER 2ND! The next FRAGMENTA-event is going to take place at St. Thomas Bay in Marsascala on Sunday, October 2nd. Artist Sandra Banthorpe invites visitors to the poetic site-specific installation “UNTITLED (Ix-Xemx)”. According to calculations, the sun will set at 18.44 after a day-duration of 11h and 56min length. BEST VIEWING TIME: 17:30 to 18:30 UNTITLES (ix-xemx) is based on a story which accompanied Sandra during […]

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On April 24th 2016, FRAGMENTA was holding a 1-day-event with two guided tours around the topic of “Outside Development Zones” with German artist Erik Göngrich. What does art have to say about Outside Developent Zones, does art have a say at all in political issues? It all had started with a demonstration FRAGMENTA attended in Valletta in 2015, organized by Front Harsien ODZ and various NGOs, to protest against the development at Zonqor point, which according to the local plan […]

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FRAGMENTA is holding a 1-day-event with 2 guided tours around “Outside Development Zones” with German artist Erik Göngrich. You might ask: Outside of what? Outside of city structures would mean that one finds oneself immediately in nature or immersed in agricultural areas. In such a case, one is in a field, but not in a zone… Visitors are invited to a specific presentation on site, and to participate at a tour to some of these “fields” and discuss them and […]

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It all started with the Old Testament, as many things did: “My sister, my spouse, is an enclosed garden, an enclosed garden, a fountain sealed up,” reads the Song of Songs: “Hortus conclusus soror mea, sponsa, hortus conclusus, fons signatus“. Hortus conclusus literally means “enclosed garden” and is both an emblematic attribute of the Virgin Mary in Medieval and Renaissance poetry and art, as well as a genre of actual garden. For the 1-day-event of the same name, FRAGMENTA presented […]

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FRAGMENTA is pleased to announce its spring edition with artist Teresa Sciberras. For the one-day exhibition entitled “HORTUS CONCLUSUS”, Teresa will present works from different periods and in different techniques, which all revolve around the theme of the HORTUS CONCLUSUS or closed garden. For the event, FRAGMENTA will organise a leisurely walk in a garden, accompanied by motifs and texts from the Renaissance to our times, which have inspired Teresa in her painting. TIME: Sunday, March 20th, between 11 am and 4 pm LOCATION: The Dominican […]

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FRAGMENTA is pleased be announce a film screening by and with artist Hassan Khan. The screening will take place at The Royal British Legion in Valletta, and will be followed by a Q & A with Hassan Khan. Please join us for the event! Blind Ambition (2012, 46 min.) is a film shot with a cell phone with 27 actors in nine different episodes that take place at different times of the day in public places across the city. Shot […]

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