Internationally acclaimed artist Cristina Iglesias will be discussing her latest work Sea Cave (Entrance), giving insights into her distinctive sculptural vocabulary and her profound engagement with public spaces. As a prolific artist, her work ranges from suspended pavilions, latticed panels, passageways and mazes, horizontal fountains to walls imbued with texts and structural and vegetative forms. It can be found in inner-city spaces or remote islands all over the world, offering viewers opportunities for contemplative experiences. Cristina Iglesias significantly brings into being outdoor structures and installations using water as an integral element, soliciting the viewer to pensively follow the water’s flow and surge progressions. She offers compositions of many layers, textures, illusionary depths, and created sequences: metaphors for memory, life, and uncovering what is underneath.
In her work, Cristina Iglesias articulates a unique sculptural language, creating immersive and experiential environments that unite architecture, literature, and culturally site-specific influences. She redefines space by confounding interior and exterior, organic and artifice, combining industrial materials with natural elements to produce unexpected new sensory sites for the viewer.
‘In Conversation with Cristina Iglesias’ will be moderated by international curator Edith Devaney and it will take place at MUŻA, Malta’s National Community Art Museum, on the 16th of October 2021.
Time: 10.00 – 12.00 hrs.
Venue: MUŻA (courtyard), Auberge d’Italie, Merchants Street, Valletta.
In compliance with the ‘Standards for Safer Organised Controlled Events’ established by the Ministry for Health, attendance at this event will be limited. You are cordially invited to register for free by sending an email to events@micas.art. Please include your name, surname, and mobile number in the registration email. Registration deadline: 13th of October 2021. All persons wishing to attend the event will need to present a COVID-19 vaccine certificate upon entrance, together with a confirmation registration email from the MICAS team.
For any inquiries, please call on 21242183 (Monday to Friday, 9.00 – 16.00 hrs).
‘In Conversation with Cristina Iglesias’ forms part of the MICAS International Art Weekend 2021 and it is supported by the Ministry for Justice, Culture and Local Government, MUŻA, the Embassy of the Kingdom of Spain, Malta Tourism Authority, Heritage Malta, Air Malta, and Marian Goodman Gallery.
