The 2015 Valletta City Gate project, incorporating the new parliament building, is a site of national and historical importance, noted for its social and cultural significance both locally and internationally. 

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For over two years, the photographer observed works as they developed at Renzo Piano’s new parliament for Valletta. He found that a construction site is not unlike theatre. Workers perform to a script set by the architect and his team. 

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There is, however, another underlying performance which is very often overlooked. It lies at the unconscious level of human behaviour as a result of the workers’ necessary interaction with tools and materials relative to the circumstances of their tasks. Of particular interest to this project are works performed solely for a utilitarian purpose, with no aesthetic consideration necessary; works that eventually would have another surface applied over them.

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Consequently, this gives rise to multi-layerd acts of raw expression. This body of work aspires to explore

unconscious behaviour as an aesthetic and seeks to interpret the key concepts of chance, reality and perception. 

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 It is both an artistic expression and a document about the skin beneath the face of an historic, architectural intervention and about the temporality and influence of man at his workplace.

 

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