11 Maltese Artists Investigate The Role Of The Architect In A New Body Of Work
Eleven Maltese artists were brought together through a project focused on experimentation with entropy, which investigates the role of the architect in local society.
The exhibition, which has an experimental body of work, is being launched tonight at the Valletta Contemporary, curated by none other than the curator and architect Andrew Borg Wirth.
The project brings together 11 architecture students who joined the University of Malta ten years ago to pursue their architecture studies. Today, they all have very different individual practices but are coming together in the exhibition space.
As a result of a period of intensive collaboration during the last six months, the group often gathered to research, discuss observations, and share their processes and thoughts with each other.
The body of work is vast – meaning it will contain anything from flat works and installations to soundscapes and media works.
“This exhibition invites ten architects who collectively started the school of architecture ten years ago to investigate trajectories of this narrative in their daily work,” wrote Borg Wirth in the curatorial note.
“The group has come together and disbanded at different times over the last decade, making their own growth an entropic process in itself.”
“In the processes of construction, adaptation to the climate, planning, real estate, making monuments, and cultural production, architecture has a mediator role,” he said.
“The architect is an agent of how time performs in built and unbuilt environments. Challenging the role of the architect and transposing it into the context of a contemporary art gallery, the group is presenting independent works that demonstrate its collective understanding of where and how entropy persists – and when and why architecture needs to perform.”
The participating artists are Maria Azzopardi, Andrew Borg Wirth, Isaac Buttigieg, Lucia Calleja, Jean Ebejer, Suzi Mifsud, Tracey Sammut, Felic Micallef, Matthew Scerri, Nick Theuma, and Mike Zerafa.
There will also be a prologue with work by Norbert Francis Attard, Kane Cali, Katrina Galea, and the young architect Andrew Galea.
The exhibition is launched today, December 2, from 6pm to 10pm at the Valletta Contemporary.
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