Glass Installation
2014 Wignacourt Museum, Rabat, Malta.
2014 UNESCO Arts Education Week.
2015 Winner of the Art Venice Biennale Project 3.
This Performance-based Art piece attempts to overcome traditional divisions between art objects, spectators, and the human body. Inspired through research on evolution, specifically the notion of natural selection in relation to environmental adaptation and adjustment; this piece showed acute interest in how these changes can develop new phenotypes with adaptive traits that allow them to function differently, and, in different places.
Hence, the work puts plausible objects, in this case human body parts, in abnormal locations whilst subverting their usual function to create an atmosphere of the uncanny. This piece will draw attention to the change in status of the body when framed by art institutions while hinting on other issues such as, religion, transgender, sexuality, and imagination.
“I choose Moira Agius. In her work the material and the inmaterial world come together at the same time. We can realise how the everyday life melts into transcendence. The artist demands the viewers to contemplate and to complete their deep absorption.” – Zsolt Asztalos, Art Venice Biennale Project 3