“Studying, graduating, and working at a time of accelerated progress has made this a formative decade for the exhibiting group,” the exhibition’s description reads.

“The interests of the project are to provoke the definitions of the architect and re-examine the role it has in contemporary society.”

And that it sure manages to do: curated by Andrew Borg Wirth, the exhibition has a number of powerful pieces, such as Jean Ebejer’s EDIFICE, an installation made up of salvaged golden aluminum framed doors with mirrored glass.

Referred to by some as “symbols of bad taste”, the doors instead ask a simple question: “If buildings are society’s reflection of itself, how does the language we use to describe our buildings sit with describing our own selves? Do we like what we have to say about ourselves?”

Meanwhile, Isaac Buttigieg came up with Revel Your Modus Operandi, Perit! – a “comical narrative” highlighting the life, trials, and tribulations of the warranted architect.

From internal struggles to testy experiences with the Planning Authority, Buttigieg makes fun of “today’s capitalist post-truth Malta” while raising some very important points about how that has translated into our daily lives.

“Should the architect play a key role in elevating society from its current meaningless state and in the process give worth to the bragging of one’s acquisition and title of the ‘Perit’?” Buttigieg asks.

“Or is the profession too lost in the fiscal cobweb of societies new-rich?”

Eight more incredible works fill Valletta Contemporary and will continue to do so until 18th February.

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