As a child, I was very proud to have my all four grandparents alive and even more that two of them were Maltese.
I gathered archival documents (1979-80); my childhood drawings, family photos taken in Malta, my voice at 5 years old recorded on K7. I combine them with my recent shots of the same playground in Santa Lucija.
A year when everything changed, I became a big sister and I was confronted for the first time with the death of a loved one, my nano, my grandfather.
![](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/244b3652-b0e4-4845-930e-1d01e4a32a34/577b68a5-4770-4032-b559-2fbeef8c9843_rw_1200.jpg?h=57dca6eac2e9a320fe8652f707db02db)
General view of the installation at Malta Society of Arts, Valletta, Malta (2023)
Exhibition The Archive, Memories Recollections curated by Roderick Camilleri.
![Original drawing 1980, vintage and contemporary photographs](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/244b3652-b0e4-4845-930e-1d01e4a32a34/5fd44bc7-5a4f-44e8-b474-8c3f97d2a038_rw_1200.jpg?h=38da9e022f14faa5bc6dc5e3b2c1149f)
Original drawing 1980, vintage and contemporary photographs
![Handwriting letter statement (2023, French, English Maltese, ) as a new archive included among the others documents](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/244b3652-b0e4-4845-930e-1d01e4a32a34/44e51173-6021-48ea-a26c-e026936ad3f4_rw_1200.jpg?h=fdcce25528c3f6792fdd9fca12b176eb)
Handwriting letter statement (2023, French, English Maltese, ) as a new archive included among the others documents
![Original drawing 1979, combined with old wax crayons and pencils.](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/244b3652-b0e4-4845-930e-1d01e4a32a34/677fe250-24c8-4d1b-921a-19e67ad4beee_rw_1200.jpg?h=992ca5673b9422fea2baddcb8d5316f4)
Original drawing 1979, combined with old wax crayons and pencils.
![Short photography film, projected into a wood frame.](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/244b3652-b0e4-4845-930e-1d01e4a32a34/3ee7461a-dd11-4f98-a607-4c70e616ca7e_rw_1200.jpg?h=c0a9bcdd1985a2d29081533b96d4b4e1)
Short photography film, projected into a wood frame.
Contact me, if you are interested to watch the photo film (3 min).