Art: The self as image, the image as self

Louis Laganà reflects on the bold, expressive works of Silvio John Camilleri, on display at the Wignacourt Museum, Rabat, until May 24

The current exhibition Vestiges by Silvio John Camilleri, held at the Wignacourt Museum, does not merely explore the notion of identity; it dismantles and reconstructs it through the medium of paint. At the heart of this body of work lies a sustained engagement with the self, not as a fixed or stable entity, but as a fluid and porous construct shaped by memory, instinct and imagination.

This becomes particularly evident when one considers the artist’s self-portraits in relation to the broader corpus of paintings in the exhibition. Unlike traditional portraiture, which seeks likeness or psychological depth through subtle observation, Camilleri’s self-images operate through distortion, exaggeration and fragmentation.

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