The title of Gerald-John Micallef’s current exhibition, Introspection, evokes a descent into a deep personal space, a search for silence, to rediscover what was lost and reconfiguring chaos into cosmos. The artist, who is also a priest, agrees that the title has profound undercurrents, representing what goes on through his mind. “I am a person who thinks a lot, who reflects, who prays and who analyses everything so that I could manage to understand what’s going on around me, this through an exercise of assimilation. It is my relationship with the cosmos.” Words are sometimes not enough to express everything; however, the creation of art, both as painting and sculpture, goes some way into facilitating this. F'Dawlek Complex thoughts that plague the mind are hard to convey as a visual alternative. So, for Introspection, Micallef is using his own poems as assistance, a body of work going back 35 years, to make his notions and concepts more comprehensible. The choice of title is not coincidental – introspection elicits a personal delving. “I feel like a creature shedding off my skin and growing into a new one. One exhibition organically evolves into another,” he says, remarking that...
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