OIKOS LOGIA 

Oikos Logia (The study of the natural habitat) is a portal to contemplate the dysfunctional relationship between humans and their natural habitat.

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It is an artistic microcosm to consider the cultural and social breakdown in our relationship to our natural surroundings; the erosive eclipse of our habitat to a point where we mistake our urban fabric for our real habitat.

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This show comprises a rich, multimedia survey of contemporary work by ten international artists: Adrian Abela, Jon Banthorpe, Anna Calleja, Showzen Kajima, Tom Van Malderen, Cyril Sancereau, Ian Schranz, Stefan Spiteri, Ritty Tascum and Sam Vassallo. 

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In this exhibition, the artists address the infectious challenges of our time, framed by excessive urban development, political and economic ambitions, and the thoughtless misuse, abuse and exhaustion of our environment.

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Rather than an exercise of judgement to tell people how to live their lives, the artists seek to create a conversation, to situate current environmental caveats towards a deeper understanding of our responsibilities towards our ecosphere.

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Oikos Logia engages our lived environment: the symbiosis of power and control, and the friction between brutality and physical beauty. This group of works looks to the global misuse of resources and their inherent capability for dramatic reuse—especially as it relates to an increasingly overwhelming ecological anxiety.

In the artists’s material lexicon, plastic, polymeres, metal are pollutants with potential for beauty. This show insists on the physical effects and poetic potential of reapropriation of materials and a similarly visceral need to address this global issue.

 

This show comprises a rich, multimedia survey of contemporary work by ten international artists: Adrian Abela, Jon Banthorpe, Anna Calleja, Showzen Kajima, Tom Van Malderen, Cyril Sancereau, Ian Schranz, Stefan Spiteri, Ritty Tascum and Sam Vassallo. 

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The exhibition runs from 23rd February until 8th April. R Gallery thanks its sponsors M Demajo Wines and Spirits, R Lautier and F212.

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