Li Bqajna

Li Bqajna is a collection of drawing narrations and a video installation about loss. The artist inspired by those past or childhood moments that we lose or forget as we grow up, by the people who leave us behind and the people we leave behind. Sometimes we can even lose or forget who we are as we are too busy. This project can also be considered as postmodern because it appropriates or “borrows existing imagery or elements of imagery” which the artists recontextualise (Rowe, 2011, para. 1). In her video the artist does this when she appropriates Mariella Cassar Cordina’s concept of loss by remixing shots from the series ‘The Leftovers’ with her concept of loss. She further uses the method of appropriation as she inserts in the video, still images; her childhood family photos, which she previously used in past projects, "separating” them "from the original context” and giving them "new and varied meanings” (The J. Paul Getty Trust, para. 3). Such examples are her childhood still images with the tree, photos that she now re-contextualises in the video and uses as a metaphor for all that changes, disappears or fades away. The interdisciplinary performance was staged on the 19th December 2016 at Splendid on Strait Street in Valletta. The event was organised by the Strada Stretta Concept under the auspices of the Valletta 2018 Foundation and under the artistic direction of Giuseppe Schembri Bonaci and in collaboration with Hotel Splendid and Version 2. https://valletta2018.org/events/li-bqajna/

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