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Marsa Junction Project monumental artworks on display in Valletta The open spaces around the new roads, flyovers and footpaths of the Marsa Junction Project will soon get an injection of colour and imagination with four monumental works of art chosen through a public competition earlier this year. Four teams of artists are using steel, ceramics, recon- stituted stone and other materials to produce these permanent artworks, each rising over one storey high, for installation in Marsa in the coming weeks. Whilst these artists work on their creations, Infra- structure Malta and Fondazzjoni Kreattività are invit- ing the public to an exhibition of the scale models of these new public artworks and another 12 competi- tion submissions shortlisted for other road projects in Malta. Curated by Dr Christian Attard, the exhibition is being held at Spazju Kreattiv (St James' Cavalier), in Valletta, and runs until Sunday, 24th January 2021. The artworks that Infrastructure Malta commissioned for the new landscaped areas of the Marsa Junc- tion Project are Tisliba by Gozitan-born ceramics artist Paul Haber, Sema by I+A Limited, a collective of architects, artists and technologists from Malta, Ascension by Mizzi Studio, a design studio based in London and Valletta, and Tipping Point by Alex Welch, a metal artist from Limassol, Cyprus. Besides the maquettes of these artworks, the exhibition also features videos of the ongoing works to produce the monumental artworks that will soon be ready for in- stallation in Marsa. The designs of these works of art were chosen out of 56 proposals received in response to an internation- al call for artworks launched by Infrastructure Mal- ta in collaboration with Spazju Kreattiv last March. Thirty-six participants from Malta and seven other countries, including Cyprus, Italy, Poland, Romania, Spain, USA and Venezuela, entered the competition by submitting one or more designs. 14 maltatoday | SUNDAY • 27 DECEMBER 2020 EYEWITNESS