When the Moon Waxes Red
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When the Moon Waxes Red
In an age of advanced climate crises, the earth should be read as if it were a script that needs to be interpreted. This links to traditional knowledge, shifts in perspectives and norms and raises the question: What if we pluralised our ideas about the world and acknowledged that the current understanding of the future that has dominated the world for centuries simply leads to a dead(ly) end?
The exhibition heeds the call for a polyphonic view of life on this planet, where humans and non-humans, binary and non-binary subjects and matters have an equal say, and pays attention to the unheard, unseen, indigenous knowledge and futurisms.
‘When the Moon Waxes Red’, borrowed from Vietnamese filmmaker Trinh Minh-h’s book of the same name, brings together artists from around the world that address the imbalance between human activities to extract resources and colonial ideologies, justifying the protection of property over people and nature’s degradation, by using ecofeminism as a point of departure.
Creative Team
Curator: Maren Richter
Exhibition design: Keit Bonnici
Project Management: Ambra Anselmo
Artists: Ursula Biemann, Seba Calfuqueo, DIS Collective, Charlene Galea, Romea Roxman Gatt, Folly Feast Lab (Yara Feghali and Viviane El Kmati), Crystn Hunt Akron, Sasha Huber, Nation25 (Elena Abbiatici, Valeria D’Ambrosio and Caterina Pecchioli), Daniela Ortiz, Kanthy Peng, Robertina Šebjanič and Bartolina Xixa
Upcoming Events
When the Moon Waxes Red | Curatorial Tour
‘When the Moon Waxes Red’, borrowed from Vietnamese filmmaker Trinh Minh-h’s book of the same name, brings together artists from around the world that address the imbalance between human activities to extract resources and colonial ideologies, justifying the protection of property over people and nature’s degradation, by using ecofeminism as a point of departure.
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Location | Space A, Spazju Kreattiv, Valletta
Art Additives | live streamed on Spazju Kreattiv Facebook page
Wednesday 15th March 2023, 7pm
Who holds the future of our planet in their hands? In this workshop, we will walk through ‘When the moon waxes red’, an exhibition of female and queer artists from across the globe. We will discuss the main themes of the exhibition; climate change, power and the future of our planet. Using drawing and clay we will make our own work in response to the exhibition!
Thursday 30th March 2023: 9:30am & 11:30am (Schools)
Saturday 1st April 2023: 11am & 5pm (General Public)
This project is a Spazju Kreattiv commission.
Photo credit: Romeo Roxman Gatt, But Love Left No Room for Hydration, 2019
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