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My essentials LEO CHIRCOP 29, artist I'm Leo. I've always loved looking at images to understand the way the world is informed and works. I love reading about the topics I adjacently discover via the images that represent a subject of my interest. This fascination has shaped me in wanting to discover more on the process of image making. 1. Book 2. Film 3. Internet 4. Music 5. Place ENIGMA'S MCMXC a.D. (1990) or Single Gun Theory's Flow River of My Soul (1994) are my go-to albums if I feel like having an out of body ex- perience. POMPEII. I'd love to see frescoes and mosaics. I'M currently reading An- ti-portraiture: Challenging the Limits of Portraiture by Fiona Johnstone and Kirstie Imber (2020). It is a collection of essays that illustrate works of different artists across var- ied media. I'm interested in understanding the liminali- ty and process related to the boundary of making, or even the unmaking of the so-called portrait genre, and how one can create an inside-out im- age of themselves or others. SALLY Potter's Orlando from 1992. At the core, I was mes- merised by Tilda Swinton's shapeshifting performance. You never really know where it can take you. I was looking at images of Aby Warburg's Bilderatlas Mnemosyne (1925-1929). The project consists of photographic reproduc- tions of paintings across time in the ambition to trace visual patterns in the visual language of art history. It is a crash course. Compiled by Laura Calleja suggestions by email lcalleja@mediatoday.com 4 5 1 MaltaToday is supported by Arts Council Malta 4 maltatoday | SUNDAY • 8 FEBRUARY 2026 ALMANAC 3 2