The Joana Vasconcelos exhibition currently on at the Malta International Contemporary Arts Space (MICAS) is coming to a close on April 20.
Transcending the Domestic, launched in tandem with the grand opening of MICAS in October 2024, features a core selection of installations that focus on the domestic, presented alongside three major works – Tree of Life, The Garden of Eden and Valkyrie Mumbet.
“These works have illustrated how the challenging aspects of daily life creates a desire and need to tap into the more spiritual sides of our nature in order to find an emotional release,” MICAS artistic director Edith Devaney, said.
“We have been delighted to host the thousands of visitors who came to the galleries, as well as having had the opportunity to show them around, explaining Vasconcelos’s works, the gender and cultural politics at play in her pieces, and even seeing visitors young and old interact joyfully with the materiality of Vasconcelos’s works,” she added.
The presentation of Vasconcelos’s work at MICAS was also a celebration of the completion of Malta’s €30 million heritage project and its contemporary architecture.
Once the exhibition is dismantled at the end of April, MICAS will be refitting its gallery floors in preparation for the exhibition The Space We Inhabit, featuring six Maltese contemporary artists.
“In the next months, the galleries here will gently move on from Vasconcelos’s monumental works, to a different kind of show that is very dear to us here at MICAS: Maltese art on the international platform of this institution,” MICAS executive chairperson Phyllis Muscat said.
This year, MICAS hosted two open weekends granting free access to the public, as well as having launched a long-awaited tribute to a master of Maltese post-war modern art, Raymond Pitrè, whose work Figure in Rods is now permanently installed out on the MICAS esplanade.
“We welcome everyone to come and enjoy the great space at MICAS and make the most of this ‘last chance’ to see Joana Vasconcelos’s larger-than-life works in our generous galleries,” Muscat said.
This article was provided by MICAS.
