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![What Moves Between Us
Artist Spotlight: Lucia Seifert
Works: "The Waves" and "Uttanasana" (2026)
Drawing from Virginia Woolf’s The Waves, the work considers generational trauma as something encoded somatically before it can be articulated verbally. Mother and daughter are depicted in the same Uttanasana (forward fold), an act of surrendering to gravity through which the same bodily pattern is repeated. The spine becomes a timeline and an arch of structural tension, tracing where the mother’s stress settles and where it is replicated within the daughter’s body. The emotional weight carried by one does not end at the boundary of her skin. Trauma is approached not as a series of isolated events, but as an uninterrupted wave passing between two bodies, asking where one nervous system ends and the next begins.
Lucia Seifert is a visual artist whose practice investigates generational trauma and the cyclical nature of family history, examining how the past continues to echo into the present. Through depictions of the human form, her work confronts the visceral discomfort of inhabiting her own skin as daughter, sister and woman. Her practice considers the tension between emotional inheritance and the need for self-definition, bringing personal vulnerability and visual storytelling together to explore deeply private experiences of addiction and complex familial ties.
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What Moves Between Us
Curated by @elysetonna
On view until 15 November.
Monday–Friday [10:00–19:00]
Saturday [10:00–13:00] & [16:00-19:00]
Sunday [10:00–13:00]
Featuring:
@kme_11
@sarahfilmdiary
@iljunfantroza
@giola_cassar
@tina_darmanin25
@yanafenech
@ninagerada
@guljaholland
@teemif
@luciaseifertart
@rasha.zc_arts
@_jade_zammit_
📷@lisa_attard
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![What Moves Between Us
Artist Spotlight: Tina Mifsud
Works: "Mole di Narni"; "At Your Leisure"; "Looking is Allowed"; "On Display"; "Growing On You"; "To My Taste"; "A Learned Desire" (2026)
This body of work shifts towards the female gaze, centring men as subjects of desire, tenderness and distance. Through painting, the male figure is repositioned within a space of observation that is both intimate and unresolved. Romanticised yet withheld, the figures are caught in quiet, ambiguous moments that resist narrative closure.
The works reflect on the suppression of women’s emotional and physical needs, creating scenes that are elusive and psychologically charged. Desire is present but not fully articulated, allowing the viewer to remain in a state of uncertainty, drawn into a gaze that is soft, questioning and quietly confrontational.
Tina Mifsud is a Maltese artist based between Malta and Rome. Working across painting, sculpture and printmaking, her practice moves between figuration and abstraction and is grounded in processes of documentation and material translation. Her work explores intimacy, memory and belonging through the body and landscape. Mifsud recently completed an MA in Fine Arts at RUFA – Rome University of Fine Arts.
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What Moves Between Us
Curated by @elysetonna
On view until 15 November.
Monday–Friday [10:00–19:00]
Saturday [10:00–13:00] & [16:00-19:00]
Sunday [10:00–13:00]
Featuring:
@kme_11
@sarahfilmdiary
@iljunfantroza
@giola_cassar
@tina_darmanin25
@yanafenech
@ninagerada
@guljaholland
@teemif
@luciaseifertart
@rasha.zc_arts
@_jade_zammit_
📷@lisa_attard (1,2); @elisa_von_bee (3)
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![What Moves Between Us
Artist Spotlight: Ġulja Holland
Works: "Pisces Rising II" (2024); "The Tidal II" (2024); "Three Graces" (2025)
Drawing on memories of snorkelling in the Mediterranean, Pisces Rising II depicts a shoal of fish moving with the coherence of a single body. Individual movement becomes inseparable from that of the collective, proposing interdependence as a form of intelligence in which survival relies on cooperation rather than hierarchy.
Borrowing its title from the Greek mythological figures associated with beauty, generosity and harmony, Three Graces turns towards species more commonly met with fear or perceived lack of consciousness. A fish, sea snake and hammerhead shark are reconsidered through the unexpected beauty and emotional register of scientific X-ray imagery. The work questions the hierarchies through which empathy is distributed across species and the tendency to recognise value only where we can identify qualities familiar to ourselves.
Ġulja Holland is a Maltese painter whose work explores the shifting relationship between humanity, nature and mythology. She holds an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art, London and a BA (Hons) in Fine Art from Leeds Arts University. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at Compton Verney, Spazju Kreattiv, EY Projects Shanghai, Omnu Creative Houses, R Gallery Berlin and the Malta Pavilion at the Malta Biennale 2026.
Holland has recently undertaken the Turps Summer Residency in London and is the recipient of multiple Arts Council Malta grants and awards.
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What Moves Between Us
Curated by @elysetonna
On view until 15 November.
Monday–Friday [10:00–19:00]
Saturday [10:00–13:00] & [16:00-19:00]
Sunday [10:00–13:00]
Featuring:
@kme_11
@sarahfilmdiary
@iljunfantroza
@giola_cassar
@tina_darmanin25
@yanafenech
@ninagerada
@guljaholland
@teemif
@luciaseifertart
@rasha.zc_arts
@_jade_zammit_
📷@lisa_attard
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![What Moves Between Us
Artist Spotlight: Nina Gerada
Work: "Roma" (2022)
Composed of individually painted and carved ceramic blocks, Roma forms a fragmented, dream-like landscape informed by archaeological excavations, architectural plans and typeset printing blocks. Shifts in scale, texture and pattern move between solid and void, positive and negative imprint, presence and absence. Rather than reconstructing a particular place, the work considers how memory is constructed through fragments and traces. Its modular structure recalls the partial nature of archaeological knowledge, where what remains becomes a means of approaching what has disappeared, and where absence participates as much as material presence in how histories are read.
Nina Gerada is a Maltese artist, designer and educator whose career spans film production design, urban design, architecture and sculpture. After 22 years abroad, her return to Malta has become a central focus within her work. Gerada studied at Chelsea College of Art, the Bartlett School of Architecture at UCL and London Metropolitan University and is a Higher Education Teaching Fellow. Her work has been exhibited at the Malta Art Biennale, the Malta Society of Arts, the British Ceramics Biennial and Collect in London.
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What Moves Between Us
Curated by @elysetonna
On view until 15 November.
Monday–Friday [10:00–19:00]
Saturday [10:00–13:00] & [16:00-19:00]
Sunday [10:00–13:00]
Featuring:
@kme_11
@sarahfilmdiary
@iljunfantroza
@giola_cassar
@tina_darmanin25
@yanafenech
@ninagerada
@guljaholland
@teemif
@luciaseifertart
@rasha.zc_arts
@_jade_zammit_
📷@lisa_attard
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