Excavation works for Prospettiva, an analogy on City Gate designed by Chris Briffa, have started and the installation will be in place at the foot of Ġlormu Cassar Avenue, in Valletta, by the end of summer.
The artistic installation was commissioned by the Valletta 2018 Foundation. Works started this week in coordination with the planning authority, the Infrastructure Ministry, Transport Malta, the works and agriculture departments, Environmental Landscapes Consortium and the Superintendence of Cultural Heritage.
Prospettiva seeks to revisit the memories of City Gate through an architectural performance engaging in perspective and apparition.
The installation is a temporal collage, juxtaposing the seminal changes in Valletta’s lifetime while highlighting its forthcoming agendas of European Capital of Culture.
The five historic gates were studied, draughted and reinterpreted into a singular 2D icon which was subsequently disassembled into different planes and anamorphic projections.
Chris Briffa’s installation was chosen by a jury following a competition.