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In "BOOK IN THE SEA" the artists are proposing a book made of air and water, text rising from the depths of the Grand Harbour to speak to the audience standing at the Lower Barrakka Gardens. The sea, as a page on which human thoughts and reflections manifest themselves, makes an apt book format for the poetic images surfacing from underneath. This work brings together cutting-edge technological tools with principles borrowed from the composition of literary works. The result is a poetic reflection on the ephemerality of all things in a harbour which ha s been a key-point in the history of the Maltese Islands and the Euro-Mediterranean region. The poem is terse.  Much is left unsaid , as in life. These words just point, without comment, to the balance between the continuous emptying and replenishing character of the sea and human life. The rest is a silent invitation to witness the moment.

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TITLE  : The Book in the Sea
EXHIBITION  : European Capital of Culture - Valletta 2018 in Malta
VENUE  : LOWER BARRAKKA GARDENS, VALLETTA
DATE  : August 2018

MATERIAL  : PVC pipe, Air
SIZE  : H4000, W80000, D450
ORGANISATION  : European Capital of Culture

COLLABORATION  : Atelier OMOYA + Glan Calleja 
SHOOTING  : Takatoku Nishi, Takuo Ando, Taro Suzuki
MUSIC  : Toshihito Kaneto
VEDEO EDITING  : Taro Suzuki, Takuo Ando
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