In this collection named Heart of Matter, Victor Agius is presenting his latest earth paintings and stoneware ceramics. The core of Agius’s practice can be experienced through his shamanic gestures in which the primordial matter of terrarossa, ceramics, pigments, cement and clay focus on how man uses nature and materials around him to practice his rituals to satisfy his material and spiritual needs while exposing his fragile existence.

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His ceramics with their organic and primitive language seem to emerge from a deserted primordial landscape. Some of these forms expose matter in its raw form through the matt, volcanic and rugged textures of earthy glazes. His artworks speak about the way matter, nature and rituals are formed while their energy is transcended into ethereal experiences.

 

A number of Agius's past projects created a dialogue with specific locations.  In this particular exhibition Agius is conversing with the village of Mqabba and its surrounding areas. Some of the ceramic works are executed in a honeycomb hue reflecting the gleaming colour of the Globigerina Limestone which is extracted from the quarries surrounding the area. The works are a homage to the quarries and catacombs located in Mqabba and the megalithic temples found in the vicinity of the village.