
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.








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


