Dates 13th November 2015 - 7th January 2016 Artistic Director Giuseppe Schembri Bonnaci
“... the corps(e) of the Reality – if there is any – has not been recovered, is nowhere to be found. And this because the Real is not just dead (as God is), it has purely and simply disappeared. In our virtual world, the question of the Real, of the referent, of the subject and its object, can no longer even posed.” (J. Baudrillard, 2000). The two artworks presented for the Mdina Biennale contemplate the words uttered by Baudrillard and seek to interpret such statement in today’s context. It seems that reality has indeed disappeared; we live life through the web with the aid of prosthetic gadgets in ever growing speeds. Everything seems ephemeral and superfluous until our flesh gets corrupt and our longevity is compromised! It is there that we fear that ‘God is dead’! When flesh turns against itself and it threats its hosting universe body (the only Reality we can testify to), and one sees imminent collapse, it is said that something profound occur; the world goes silent and poetry happens – mere mortals contemplate the Divine. There are those who clearly believe that God is nothing more than a simulacrum but it is amazing how more then often, when faced with dire situations, man is content to contemplate the Divine even though it might be nothing more then an illusion! Saints used to offer immaculate organs on silver plates to God; perhaps nowadays it is through corrupt flesh that man seeks the Divine.''