C’est La Vie: Children’s Cancer Ward Nurse Launches New Ceramic Exhibition At Mqabba’s Kamra Ta’ Fuq
A senior staff nurse at the children’s cancer ward of Mater Dei has just launched a new ceramic exhibition at Mqabba’s Kamra ta’ Fuq, curated by Melanie Erixon.
Joseph Agius’ profession as a nurse exposes him to a world whose fabric can include pain, disease, despair, and death – serving as an indirect inspiration for his work.
The ceramic work focuses on various aspects of life. The exhibition title is meant as a tongue-in-cheek or sarcastic comment to highlight the alienation that we are surrounded with and the ‘laissez-faire’ way of life that we are so used to live in.
The aspects tackled are various and originate from different strata of life as well as from different countries.
The work’s theme focuses on various rules, attitudes, and different social traditions, along with serious social issues, including migration, poverty, genocide and injustice.
World news is also a source of inspiration. Thus he tends to favour a social neo-realist aesthetic. Joseph chooses linguistic metaphors and figures of speech as springboards for his creations, so the titles of his works have a metaphorical origin which he subsequently interprets as a narrative in clay.
The sculptures presented in this collection are all executed in ceramics, a signature medium for Agius who has been working with this medium for over 30 years and all the artworks come with very evocative titles, which is very typical and expected of Agius’s provocative works.
The exhibition will run from 20th January until 12th February.
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