Art: Between crescent, moon and obscurity

Paul Scerri’s installation Ma Nafx il-Vers li Ġej attempts to give shape to the creative process, turning upon itself in a self-referentiality not untypical of contemporary practice. 

It imagines the machinations of creativity groaning into motion: the doubt, exaltation, resistance, impasse and surprise that accompany the act of making.

The installation takes its title from a poem by the late Carmel Attard, who asks: “But the next verse – who knows what it will be?” It may carry within it suffering or joy, gravity or laughter; it may even be the poet’s final verse. The uncertainty of Attard’s lines is reflected in – and embodied by – the conceptual engine of Scerri’s work.

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