All’s set for the third edition of the Valletta International Visual Arts Festival (Viva), which this year runs between April 15 and May 30, presenting an opportunity for local and international contemporary artists to network and showcase their artistic projects.

Viva is a collection of 10 exhibitions and installations that emanate from a multitude of themes, concepts and philosophies, prominent among them being the theme of continuity.

A collection of 10 exhibitions and installations that emanate from a multitude of themes, concepts and philosophies, prominent among them being the theme of continuity

This year’s edition of Viva will be presenting a multi-layered programme of initiatives that have different creative mediums and forms intertwine to bring opposites together through old and new, faith and doubt, and conformity and rebellion. The programme will, among others, include derelict materials and old objects rising from the ashes; sound material articulated with purely digital materials synthetic sounds that will affect their spectral and timbral qualities; the protection, preservation and reuse of water in live art installations; the creative dynamic of calligraphy with ink painting; a collection of Polaroid photos combined with abstract poetic quotations and a video visualisation; the relationship between Gozitan history, culture and civil society through photos of everyday life; a giant bee installation sculpted in transparent plexiglass; the interweaving of independent and fine art photography; the usage of computed tomography in an experimental way to create a series of abstract animated images; and a series of box assemblages that fragmentise and fetishise the female body while bringing together the sacred and the profane on the premise that woman and the deity share a common realm – that of the other.

With some of the works exhibited away from St James Cavalier – namely Palazzo Messina, Gozo Contemporary and Ta’ Ganu windmill – Viva this year also aims to bring the arts closer to the community, closer to the people.

The event is not just an arts festival happening in Valletta that one must attend in order to experience properly. It is also a festival that reaches out to individual communities, so that it becomes entangled in their day to day activities.

http://viva.org.mt

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