Dislocated Geographies (exhibition)

Dislocated Geographies is an exhibition by Mario Abela which investigates what we think is natural but unpredictable; what is familiar but merely strange.

While chance has played a significant role in many groundbreaking scientific discoveries, it is human life and nature that have been profoundly impacted at each breakthrough. In the artist’s view, the course of the human species has been conditioned irrevocably by, and through, complex visual representations of the scientific theories and events that try to define our existence in the cosmos. It is through the abstraction of these theories into visual processes that one is able to experience a true, and accessible, sense of the Sublime.

He uses charcoal drawings, collage and sound that depart from the metaphysical, scientific theories and history. Through a juxtaposition of images and chance during execution, what starts as storytelling, becomes an exploration into fantastic, dislocated geographies. This puts under analysis concepts like time and chance to establish how these determine the interpretation of the past and sometimes forecast the future.

The exhibition was supported by Spazju Kreattiv, Gozo Arts Furnishings Limited and Gozo Prime Properties.

Exhibitions

• 3rd February to 25th March 2018: Media:Dislocated_Geographies_-_Poster1.jpg.