Lost In The Ether: First Solo Exhibition By Upcoming Artist Featuring At Mqabba
Your monthly fix for art in Mqabba is here once again, with a new exhibition launching this weekend at the legendary New Life Bar’s Il-Kamra Ta’ Fuq.
This time, we’ve got an exhibition by a young and upcoming local artist, Nicole Sciberras Debono, with a body of work titled ‘Lost in the Ether’, curated by none other than Melanie Erixon.
“To be lost in the ether is to say that one is engrossed in communication or visual that has no fixture in space or time; it has no precise location or context,” the curator’s excerpt reads.
“Through her collection ‘Lost in the Ether’, which constitutes her first solo exhibition, Sciberras Debono brings forward esoteric narratives of domestic familiarity, with notes on online and para-social relationships, and the reflections of a young woman in contemporary society.”
“Debono’s debut collection captures intimate and abstruse moments, belonging to either herself or her peers with whom she communicates through various channels online.”
Through this work, she interprets and translates these moments into isolated visual anecdotes through choice in subject matter, narrative, shape, texture, and colour.
“In a few words, Debono gravitates towards this concept as she often wonders about the differences between online relationships and ‘real life’ personal relationships,” Erixon writes.
“She looks for an answer to the difference between the two. She sheds light on matters which preoccupy her thoughts, namely loneliness and solitude (they are not one and the same) in the ‘social’ age, understanding virtual relationships as well as the digital curation of the self.”
Through her work, she manages to capture a physical presence, even where such form is outside of the frame itself.
Nicole Sciberras Debono is a Maltese contemporary artist working in paint and digital print, whose work primarily focuses on portraits and figurative narratives.
Her art normally showcases matters of her interest at the time, including people in her life, her surroundings, or any other signs of the times.
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