Spotlight /Exhibition / Malta November - December 2021 MALTA
MARGERITA PULÈ
A PLAYGROUND OF IMAGES LINKING PAST AND PRESENT
Untitled (Past Continuous), 2021. Alex Urso ®
A new body of work . by artist Alex Urso takes the Magna Zmien archive as a point of departure for a period of investigation into the meaning of the archival process, as well as into the relevance of the archive to disparate generations.
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. he Magna Zmien Foundation has a mission to digitise analogue Maltese audio-visual material (8mm films, slides, photographs, negatives, and audio tapes), giving individuals and communities access to previously lost images, sounds and narratives. Once this . material is made digital, it will be stored on the Magna Zmien server, made available to artists and researchers. This . year, Magna Zmien reached out to Italian artist Alex Urso, who has already exhibited in Malta, to create an exhibition that could bridge the gap between generations. In parallel, sound artist Yasmin Kuymizakis (who has previously engaged with the archive’s content) was invited to create two sound installations from archival recordings.
