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4 maltatoday | SUNDAY • 13 JANUARY 2019 THIS WEEK ART Back on the island with a new exhibition, acclaimed illustrator Lisa Falzon will be exhibiting a series of acrylic and digital paintings at Cafe Society in Valletta all themed under the umbrella of 'fantasy'. She guides TEODOR RELJIC through the process of creating the pieces which will be on display during 'Coca Cola Swimming Pool' Fear and Loathing at the Coca Cola Swimming Pool "IN the most literal way in this show for me this piece is about an actual fantasy. It's this weird thing -- I found as a kid I shared a fan- tasy with lots of others from my era, which was this: to swim in a swimming pool of Coca Cola. It was one of those things we'd pick as a 'fantasy prize' in games like ongi ongi ongella. Why? I've no idea. Literally stumped. But I've met kids who would prof- fer this fantasy and have everyone else going 'AAAHHHH me too!' Someone once told me it was a fantasy about sugar, more sugar than you could ever run out of. Whenever we would mention the imagined bliss of a coca cola swimming pool to adults they would inevitably think how sticky it would be and go 'eww'. And when you grow up your view of sugary soda swimming sours too and you fall out of love with the idea of a Coca Cola swimming pool. So I wanted to paint about that, both literally and metaphorically 'falling out of love' with, or in this case AT the Coca Cola swimming pool. In this picture it's a setting for unrequited love, or a love that has 'soured'. My paint- ings are often a bit of a visual joke. An emo- tional visual joke." Teodor Reljic The Antiporta installation will remain on display at Spazju Kreattiv at St James Cavalier, Valletta until February 3 Dreaming up a childhood pop culture fantasia