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I Will Continue to Follow the Ship

Noah Galea 31/07/2026

Curated by Elyse Tonna with artist Dr Matthew Attard, ‘The Ship (Unseen)’ delivers the same brilliance and deep artistic intent which Attard, Tonna, and the rest of the team had been praised for during the 60th Venice Biennale. In 2025, the two sought to continue building on the themes of connection, identity, and memory established in ‘I Will Follow the Ship’, making use once again of that iconic, ever-moving, web-like linework.

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Life Against Entropy

Erika Puglisevich 18/06/2026

Most of us move through life with a quiet certainty that being alive is self-evident. We grow, think, love, worry, plan. We distinguish instinctively between what lives and what does not. A person is alive; a stone is not. A dog is alive; a machine is not. The line feels obvious, until someone asks us to explain it.

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A Bird’s-Eye Warning

Christian Keszthelyi 25/03/2026

At the entrance to For Want of (not) Measuring, a contemporary art exhibition, visitors gape at a skull. It is of a bird, but its scale suggests something other. The sculpture rises 2.8 metres above the floor of Spazju Kreattiv in Valletta and balances improbably on its beak atop a column. From some angles, it resembles a fossil; from others, a warning. The work is by Maltese artist Prof. Trevor Borg, titled In the Balance.

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