VICTOR AGIUS

 

 

Born: 1982

Nationality: Maltese

 

Formal Art Education:

Graduate of Central St Martins, UK

 

Victor works in ceramics as well as more conventional material.  His sculpture and paintings bear a relation to each other, both being abstract isolated forms, rich in texture and tactile.

 

Comment on the Selfie Challenge:

Blurred identities

 

THE SELFIE

 

‘JIEN’

2014

Clay Slip - Print

(Cotton Fabric on Plain Weave)

W62 cm x H66 cm

 

 

The selfie phenomenon is our current notion of self-portrait wherein one projects the image he wants to give of himself. Through a performativity ritual in my studio, my actual face was fully covered in clay and then transferred through an imprint on muslin. ‘Jien’ is not only a representation of my face, but it says more about me especially since it is a ‘true image’ worked with the media that inspires my practice the most. The use of a face printed on a cloth was not intended to denote the iconographical connotations that it usually evokes. I feel
very much inspired and intrigued by the malleable properties of clay with its primal and organic nature that reveal our physical association with the earth.