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Tactile, a Valletta 2018 exhibition featuring 12 concealed sculptures intended to never be seen, aims to reverse any preconceived notions of the ‘normal’ process of perceiving visual art exclusively through sight. Set up at the University’s Valletta camTouch, but not see
Tactile, a Valletta 2018 exhibition featuring 12 concealed sculptures intended to never be seen, aims to reverse any preconceived notions of the ‘normal’ process of perceiving visual art exclusively through sight. Set up at the University’s Valletta campus, Simonne Pace finds out that visitors can only admire the works of art blindfolded. In these last couple of years there have been other art exhibitions that opened the doors to the visually impaired and the blind. Tactile, however, is the first international exhibition where local artists are brought together with others from Japan, France and Italy under one roof. Subconsciously, this exhibition has been germinating for years, “perhaps since when I saw a film based on Jose Saramago’s novel Blindness,” its curator Jesmond Vassallo says. “Then, finally, before May 2017, I submitted a written proposal through the Valletta Design Cluster to be considered for a funding competition organised by the EU Japan Fest,” he adds. The project was well received and Vassallo was given the first grant to accomplish a research period that had to take placein Japan. He chose to remainin Tokyo, where he met and discussed this idea with various... Read more