Issue link: https://maltatoday.uberflip.com/i/1207647
12 maltatoday | WEDNESDAY • 5 FEBRUARY 2020 CULTURE A public lecture by Professor Keith Sciberras on Melchiorre Cafà's statuette, 'St Rose of Li- ma', will be held on Wednesday 12th Febru- ary at 6:30pm at MUŻA. Attendance is free of charge. The lecture will discuss the statue within the context of Cafà's work, and the wider framework of the Roman Baroque style. The event is a joint collaboration between Her- itage Malta and the Department of Art and Art History within the University of Malta. St Rose of Lima, who lived between 1586 and 1617, became the first female saint of the new world in April 1668. For this occa- sion, Cafà's marble statue of the Dominican saint was displayed prominently on the Ca- thedra of St Peter, in the titular apse of the Vatican, directly in front of Bernini's iconic ensemble within the same Basilica. Melchiorre Cafà was meant to be the ar- tistic protagonist, but his untimely death seven months prior to the Beatification tragically precluded his presence from the well-choreographed ephemeral spectacle commissioned by the powerful Dominican Order. The real protagonist, however, was his white marble statue. Following the Beatification, the statue travelled across the Atlantic Ocean and beyond, to finally mark the saint's tomb in Lima, Peru, making Cafà's work the first monumental statue of the Roman Baroque to travel so far from the Papal City. Melchi- orre Cafà also produced a number of small- er bronze versions of the statue, the most beautiful of which, made of gilt bronze and silver, has been acquired by Heritage Malta. For more information, visit www.heritage- malta.org Heritage Malta acquires Melchiorre Cafà's 'St Rose of Lima' UNFINISHED Art Space pre- sents its biggest project-exhi- bition to date; a feminist pro- gramme of events and the first temporary exhibition to be hosted by MUŻA, Malta's Na- tional Community Art Muse- um. Strangers in a Strange Land forms part of Spazju Kreattiv's Art+Feminism 2020 Project, in collaboration with Wikimedia Community Malta, M3P Foun- dation and the Gabriel Caruana Foundation, which includes a se- ries of curated exhibitions across three sites presenting new works by both established and emerg- ing women artists. Strangers in a Strange Land – curated by Margerita Pulè - is a multidisciplinary exhibition about being female in a world narrated by and designed for men. Artists Barumbara Collective, Etienne Farrell with Charlene Gálea, Roxman Gatt, and Letta Shtohryn show work reacting to their experiences of negotiating their lives in a male-oriented world. The programme will start with a movement workshop for women by Barumbara Collec- tive member Francesca Saraullo on 12 February. The Barumbara Collective themselves will per- form a new immersive work at MUŻA on 14, 15, 16 February; Imagined More Than Woman will test the boundaries which our identities place on us, and will redefine the contours of a cultural space through a female gaze. Roxman Gatt will perform her work My Womxn is a God My God is a Womxn on 28, 29 February – her sculptures and paintings will also be on show throughout the exhibition. A collaboration between Etienne Farrell and Charlene Gálea will bear fruit with JIEN - a series of portraits of Charlene herself exploring authorities and insincerities as well as hu- man vulnerabilities. Media artist and researcher Letta Shtohryn has also been commissioned to create a new work; #tb2020. an Altar to Algorithmic Bias is based on her research into the ingrained biases which is present in existing algorithms. Alongside the exhibition and performances, Wiki Communi- ty Malta will hold a Wikipedia Workshops and Edit-a-thons on 6 and 7 March. A conversation with artists Etienne Farrell, Charlene Galea, and Letta Shtohryn about their work will take place on 21 Feb- ruary, while the curator will speak about the exhibition on 23 February and 8 March. The project is supported by Arts Council Malta's Malta Arts Fund - Project Support Grant, as well as Express Trailers and So- roptimist International Malta. Strangers in a Strange Land takes place from 14 February – 8 March at MUŻA, Auberge d'Italie, Merchant St, Valletta. More info and event tickets on: www.unfinishedartspace.org/ strangeland. Strangers in a strange land