Artists’ dialogue leads to multimedia exhibition

A shared interest in ‘objectness’ or the state of being an object was the starting point of an intimate dialogue between three international artists who met at a month-long residency programme in Reykjavik, Iceland.
The informal exchanges that followed − through texts, links and images – have led to a multimedia exhibition currently on Spazju Kreattiv.
Object, Objetc, Objecc features the works of Ukrainian artist Letta Shtohryn, Canadian counterpart Liza Eurich and Katri Kempas of Finland, who use different media to explore methods of translation: from simulated to real, from personal to referential, from present to absent and vice-versa.

Ms Shtohryn moved to Malta a few years ago. As an artist, she is concerned with the relationship between the digital realm and human nature. She analyses post-human thought while speculating about the future.
“As a method, I employ metaphysical investigations and aspects of digital culture using technology I find familiarity with. Extending my research to the exploration of truth and myth, I look for processes and origins of the real and the artificial,” the artist says.
She combines the digital and the tangible in her works, looking for space...