‘Are You Going To Worship Me?’ – Santa Clement Resurfaces At UoM’s Architecture Faculty Building To Welcome Freshers
Santa Cement has risen again, this time at the forefront of University of Malta’s Faculty for the Built Environment, right as Freshers’ Week kicks off.
The statue, originally titled “Min Ħexa Mexa”, was created in August of this year by architecture students Karl Sammut and Julian Cassar as part of a summer workshop hosted by SACES. The scope of it all was to follow the theme of ‘Escape’, leading the duo to create a narrative that revolved around the nation’s “addiction” for overdevelopment and contractor greed. The piece then was displayed in a makeshift pavilion, further underlying its religious undertones as it served as a sort of chapel.
The visage of Santa Cement, standing at about 2 meters of pure cement, now ironically stands at the entrance of UM’s Faculty for the Built Environment, greeting students and staff members alike with “Ħa Tadurani???” (“Are you going to worship me?”) written in black paint on a ragged sheet.
Sammut and Cassar hope that their creation will remain on the premises for at least a year to continue spreading the deeper meaning behind the piece.
“We want students to be aware of the local situation when it comes to the Maltese construction industry and we urge them to address it rather than hide or be afraid to act,” Sammut told Times of Malta, “The statue serves as a physical reminder to do better, design better and avoid being pushed around in an industry often run by bullies.”
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