Maltese artist Robert Zahra is exhibiting a new body of work titled UPROOTED lil Amir, at 166, Triq il-Kbira, Żabbar.
Zahra examines the environments humans inhabit and the ways these spaces reflect our social, cultural and ecological relationships.
Through his works, the artist responds to the transformed terrains of Gaza – landscapes once defined by daily life but altered by years of destruction and displacement.
The works draw from the flood of visual documentation shared through social media, where witnesses and independent journalists provide immediate accounts from within the conflict. These images have shaped Zahra’s process: he employs gestures of wiping, scraping, layering and obscuring to mirror forms of erasure and endurance.
Across the series, marks shift between legibility and disappearance. Transparent overlays, map-like fragments, roots and window-like shapes interrupt and reconfigure the compositions, suggesting unstable thresholds between past and present, presence and absence.
These recurring forms evoke suspended futures, reflecting the uncertainty faced by those displaced from their homes and landscapes.
UPROOTED lil Amir invites viewers to consider what remains in the aftermath of devastation; how memory persists through material traces and how landscapes continue to speak even when violently altered.
The exhibition is open until December 21. Opening times hours are Saturday from 5.30 to 8.30pm; Sunday from 9.30am to 12.30pm or by appointment.
For more information, contact the artist on robertzahra77@gmail.com or Instagram @robertzahrart.
