Detail from Photoclasm #1649 & exhibition poster of Memorial Immortal

 

Memorial Immortal
A solo exhibition by Sergio Muscat

Curated by Sue Falzon

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There are fleeting moments when an encounter quietly rearranges something inside you. My meeting with Memorial Immortal was one of these transitional moments, a moment when abstraction shifted from something distant into something I could finally feel. For so long, I approached abstract work searching for clues or meanings, hoping the image would tell me what it meant. But standing with Sergio’s work, I realised that meaning is not something waiting to be uncovered. It arises in the space between us and the image, in the subtle movements of sensation that awaken when we allow ourselves to be present.

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As a Gestalt psychotherapist, I know how deeply human it is to try to control life: to fix, stabilise, and push away the discomfort of the unknown. Uncertainty can feel like a threat, and we tighten around it. Yet this work invited me into a different rhythm: one of loosening, softening, letting experience unfold and just staying with it. In this space, uncertainty became less something to endure and more something to explore. And within that exploration, there was a gentle shift: from managing life to becoming curious about it. This is the quiet gift of art: it allows us to meet the world with a more open heart.

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Sergio’s process of Photoclasm – the breaking open of photographs into colour, light and form – deepened this shift for me. These images echo the way life unfolds: nothing remains fixed, yet nothing is ever fully lost. Each work carries traces of what came before while reaching toward what has not yet arrived. Watching this process, I saw the human story reflected back; the way we gather ourselves, break apart, reorganise, and keep becoming. We are all derivatives of our own history, yet always moving into new form.

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And then, within the exhibition, lies the central figure, a quiet pulse of continual change. It moves like breath, like weather through the sky, like a self in motion. Forms appear, dissolve and reform, reminding us that transition is not disruption but the natural rhythm of living. In its flow, I recognised something of my own inner life, the way certain encounters continue to move within me long after their initial moment. This shifting sequence is not a narrative; it is an experience, a field of presence. It holds a tenderness that asks nothing except that you allow it to unfold.

When you visit this exhibition space, I invite you not to search for answers but to allow this body of work to reach you in its own way. Let the colours breathe. Let the transitions move through you. Notice what stirs, what settles, what resists, what opens. The meaning is not hidden inside the art, it comes alive within you. Memorial Immortal is an invitation to feel rather than interpret, to meet the work with the same openness with which life asks to be met. Perhaps, like me, you may discover that art becomes not something to understand, but something to live and that meanings are always our co-creation.