How is the scale of contemporary development and construction affecting our lives, physically and intellectually?

Moreover, how is public space being defined and shifting patterns of social interaction?

These questions are being addressed by the exhibition Fluid Space, a project organised in collaboration with the Gabriel Caruana Foundation and Spazju Kreattiv as part of the Valletta Visual Arts Festival (VIVA) 2018 programme.

Fluid Space is a collaborative exhibition which merges photography, sculpture, found objects and research to question the dynamics of Malta’s changing urban landscape, social structures, networks, conflicts, communities, strangers, time and space.

Curated by Nikki Petroni, the exhibition features the work of three artists – Duška Malešević, Raffaella Zammit, and Aidan Celeste – who collaborated on this project to address the spaces and traditions that are meaningful and the dangers inflicted upon them.

Fluid Space invites the audience to ponder on that which has been gained and lost, on the beauty of the everyday commonly overlooked, and on the ugliness, that is destroying a rich heritage.

The public interventions of pioneering modern artist Gabriel Caruana served as inspiration for the project because of his attempts to aestheticise industrial areas, mass-produced objects and busy thoroughfares.

The exhibition is being held at The Mill – Art, Culture and Crafts Centre, Birkirkara until May 12. It is open on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 5 to 7pm, and Saturdays from 4 to 8pm.

Two talks will accompany the exhibition as part of the Art Additives series. The curator’s talk will be held on Saturday and a discussion with the three participating artists will follow on May 5.

For more information, visit the VIVA official website http://viva.org.mt/ or search for the Fluid Space event page on Facebook.

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