Urbanisation Games - 2009 - St James Cavalier, Centre of Creativity
" Heavy, concrete bricks are painted in bright colours to simulate infants’ building blocks; cuboid forms are joined to make large dice, complete with black dots; tall architectural structures become different chess pieces, referring ironically to hierarchical structures in Maltese society; a stainless steel segment of a Euro note (resembling a large-scale jigsaw puzzle piece) leaves no doubt about the prime motivation in the building industry. ... , the medium of these visual puns is disguised within the seemingly ludic function of the objects. ...the works ...are metaphors (because two apparently unrelated ideas – building and games – are united in the same form).
Dr Raphael Vella
