{"id":9120,"date":"2025-02-17T07:26:05","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T07:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging-artscouncilmalta.abcnow.xyz\/?p=9120"},"modified":"2025-08-29T03:18:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T01:18:22","slug":"maltas-lead-curator-at-the-venice-biennale-dr-hesperia-iliadou-suppiej-meets-conventions-malta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-artscouncilmalta.abcnow.xyz\/en\/maltas-lead-curator-at-the-venice-biennale-dr-hesperia-iliadou-suppiej-meets-conventions-malta\/","title":{"rendered":"Malta\u2019s lead curator at the Venice Biennale Dr Hesperia Iliadou \u2013 Suppiej meets Conventions Malta"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Inspired by the Odyssey, one of humanity\u2019s oldest stories, the exhibition Maleth \/ Haven\/ Port &#8211; Heterotopias of Evocation, verges between reality and fictitious invention, to provide a contemporary and immersive re-interpretation of our timeless need of seeking a Haven (Maleth), most strongly experienced in times of crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>The Phoenician word Maleth evokes the primeval origins of Malta&#8217;s existence and literally translates to Haven\/Port, a quality inspired in all who traversed the waters of the Mediterranean through the ages and that still withstands today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bringing together artists from the Mediterranean, the artworks are specially commissioned pieces engaging the audience to complementary semantic enquiries into contemporary conditions of homeness\/ (un)homeness spreading beyond predisposed mental notions of assigned tactile borders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Open to diverse readings and drawing on the tri-fold of histories, mythologies and expectations, Maleth\/Haven\/Port- Heterotopias of Evocation aims to create a curatorial theme where the artworks come together, as vessels within a sea, inviting us to participate in an intuitively playful dialogue, traversing the exhibition in a curiosity-driven voyage of self-reflection, in a suggestive fictitious space created within the Arsenale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/artscouncilmaltagovmt.skipdns.link\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/1568965084.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe Movie Charity Auction\u201d, which was held between 5 and 7 September 2019 in Venice, Conventions Malta, organised a guided tour of Malta Pavilion at the 58th International Art Exhibition \u2013 La Biennale di Venezia with the participation of Malta pavilion\u2019s lead curator Dr Hesperia Iliadou \u2013 Suppiej.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9150,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized-mt"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-artscouncilmalta.abcnow.xyz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-artscouncilmalta.abcnow.xyz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-artscouncilmalta.abcnow.xyz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-artscouncilmalta.abcnow.xyz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-artscouncilmalta.abcnow.xyz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9120"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/staging-artscouncilmalta.abcnow.xyz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14492,"href":"https:\/\/staging-artscouncilmalta.abcnow.xyz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9120\/revisions\/14492"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-artscouncilmalta.abcnow.xyz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-artscouncilmalta.abcnow.xyz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-artscouncilmalta.abcnow.xyz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-artscouncilmalta.abcnow.xyz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}