The Sound of You Dreaming
A solo exhibition by Paul Scerri
Spazju Kreattiv, St James Cavalier, 17 January - 9 March 2025
Dreams are a rupture in the process of understanding the world because they contradict everyday notions of time and space, but at the same time they also contain strange and deep truths, both personal and collective. Paul Scerri works through these ideas in The Sound of You Dreaming. He has plunged into a research process that has drawn him inwards and taken him backwards in time, back to his native home island of Gozo, to his grandparents’ abandoned house, and to memories of his forbearers, from which he collects fragments that make their way into his work in oblique ways. Scerri’s stylised visual language poeticises the contradictions that guide the unfolding of human relationships, rendering them in an artistic language born from over 40 years of working with ceramic.
The Sound of You Dreaming, full catalogue
Curation and text Gabriel Zammit; Associate curation Andrew Borg Wirth; Exhibition design Tracey Sammit; Sound Matyou Galea, voice by Kris Polidano; Light design Light Design Solutions; Catalogue text Konrad Buhagiar and Maria Theuma, poetry by Kris Polidano; Graphic design Siobhan Vassallo; Special thanks Norbert Francis Attard, Daniel Azzopardi, Stephen Azzopardi, Rachael Blackburn, Leanne Bugeja, Lydia Busietta, Nick Cachia, Marcel Cassar, Peter Cutajar, Liana DeBattista, Jeannette Fiott, Maria Eileen Fsadni, Joe Gatt, Alison Satariano, Silvana Scerri, Thomas Scerri, Keith Scicluna, Spazju Kreattiv Staff, Jeremy Vassallo, Sam Vassallo, Loranne Vella, Benjamin Zammit
The Sound of You Dreaming is part of the Spazju Kreattiv Programme 2024/2025.
Funded by Arts Council Malta Support Scheme
Supported by Light Design Solutions, Interior Outfitters, Valletta Contemporary Gallery, APS Bank, SAW Ltd.
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