Following his successful solo exhibition in 2011, fine art photographer Alex Attard – known for specialising in architecture-related series – is currently setting up his new exhibition, entitled The Overlooked Performance.

The Valletta City Gate project, incorporating the new parlia-ment building, is a site of national and historical importance, noted for its social and cultural significance and now further reinforced both locally and internationally through association with architect Renzo Piano. The project divided local opinion and gave rise to many a controversy.

For over two years, Attard observed works at Piano’s new parliament for Valletta. He found that a building site is not unlike theatre – noting that workers perform to a script set by the architect and his team.

It is both an artistic expression and a document to the skin beneath the face of a historic architectural intervention and to the temporality of man at his workplace

There is, however, another underlying performance which is very often overlooked. It lies at the unconscious level of human behaviour as a result of the workers’ necessary inter-action with tools and materials relative to the circumstances of their tasks.

The Overlooked Performance exhibition seeks to interpret the key concepts of chance, reality and perception. It is both an artistic expression and a document to the skin beneath the face of a historic architectural intervention and to the temporality of man at his workplace.

The Overlooked Performance is curated by Vince Briffa and runs between Saturday and April 5 at St James Cavalier, Valletta.

www.overlookedperformance.com

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