Small Bones of Courage
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Small Bones of Courage
Geopolitics, climate change and global tensions have infinite repercussions on the lives of people all around the world. Every life choice and every act of migration is a distillation of the universal into a personal experience.
Small Bones of Courage forms a profound contemplative space, where complex themes of self-identity and personal geography are explored and negotiated by women artists who share an experience of a dislocation or fragmented memory. Their work reflects a universal poetic landscape; that of the jagged terrain of the heart and the distant vistas of memory.
Each artist charts her own identity; creating connections between old and new knowledge through memory and experience. Small bones of courage emerge, as infinitely personal acts of tenacity are remembered. Each artist’s story is a physical and individual form of migration.
The works in the exhibition – many of which are intensely delicate and sensitive – reflect the emotion invested in the drawing out of the artists’ inner lives. Together, the works convey the recurring phenomena of absence and disappearance in the artists’ mapping of intimate terrains, as they narrate stories of families, women, war, displacement, history, and migration.
Panel discussion followed by Exhibition opening:
Date and time: Friday, 7th March 2025
Venue: Studio B (6pm) and Space A (7pm), Spazju Kreattiv
Curator’s Tour
Date and time: Saturday, 22nd March 2025, 11am
Date and time: Sunday, 27th April 2025, 11am
Venue: Space A, Spazju Kreattiv
Grief will Find you in the End
A collective workshop with artist Sam Alekksandra (from Small Bones of Courage) and movement guide Fran Zammit.
In this 40-minute immersive experience, we invite you to sit with grief—personal, inherited, or unspoken—and move through it together. Drawing from Alekksandra’s work CHAOS MMMMEMORY PALACE, a meditation on intergenerational memory and the sorrow it carries, this intervention blends guided movement (led by Zammit) with sound and live poetry (by Alekksandra). Together, we create space for grief that remains unprocessed, unmetamorphosed.
This is not therapy, but an act of communal witnessing. Come prepared to feel deeply—tears may rise, breaths may catch. Wear loose clothing, bring water, and allow yourself to be present.
By honoring grief’s many forms, we make room for unrelenting joy, both personal and collective. We cannot outrun sorrow, but we can face it—not alone, but asunder.
Grief will find you in the end.
Date and time: Wednesday, 2nd April 2025, 7pm
Venue: Atrium, Spazju Kreattiv
Venue: Space A, Spazju Kreattiv
Movie: Freedom Fields
Date and time: 22nd April 2025, 7.30pm
Duration: 97mins
Certification: 15
Language: Arabic with English Subtitles
Filmed over five years, Freedom Fields follows three women and their football team in post-revolution Libya, as the country descends into civil war and the utopian hopes of the Arab Spring begin to fade. Through the eyes of these accidental activists, we see the reality of a country in transition, where the personal stories of love and aspirations collide with History.
Collage Workshop: Playing with Shapes & Forms
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Creative Team:
Curators: Najlaa El-Ageli & Margerita Pulè
Artists: Afsoon (UK/Iran), Aya Al Barghathy (Libya), Sam Alekksandra (Malta), Charlie Cauchi (Malta), Ioulia Chante (Greece), Malak Elghuel (Libya/UK), Maria Kasaab (Lebanon), Esmeralda Kosmatopulos (Greece/France), Sarah Smahane (Morocco/France), Sandra Zaffarese (Malta)
Small Bones of Courage is a Spazju Kreattiv Commission, produced by Noon Art Projects & Unfinished Art Space supported by the Malta Tourism Authority.
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