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APPOGGI #7

APPOGGI #7

THOMAS SCERRI

Medium: Steel, Stoneware

Size: 27x14x4cm

Year: 2023

Artwork Description: Appoġġi refers to the common walls between orifices. With the proliferation of buildings all over the islands, these walls are rising in height and are appearing everywhere - in town centres, adjacent to agricultural land and in village cores. They are in a state of lingering. These walls have a single purpose - that of supporting the next building in line. This work is a process of attempting to make peace with the abrupt environmental change that is taking place.

€720

About

THOMAS SCERRI

Thomas Scerri (b. 1990) is a multimedia artist based in Co. Cork and Malta. His primary focus lies in exploring the intricate interplay between the man-made and the natural. The relationship between human intervention and the surroundings is a recurring theme in his artistic practice that aims to encourage the audience to contemplate the potential consequences of unsustainable human intervention. Frequently commencing with mundane urban subjects, his work distils them to their bare essence, yielding abstract forms that are primarily driven by the unconscious and dictated by the material. Thomas studied at the University of Malta achieving a BFA and MFA in Digital Arts. He has been exhibiting his work for the past 8 years at respected galleries in Malta, France, and Ireland.