(Postponed) Settlers (Malta): A live performance by Anastasia Ax

Location: D’Homedes Basion, Fort St Angelo, Vittoriosa

Settlers (Malta)

Prior to the launch of the Malta Biennale 2026, Swedish artist Anastasia Ax, will be presenting a live performance which forms part of her project Settlers (Malta). Ax will be presenting a site-specific installation which has been built from locally sourced concrete blocks and limestone. Through repeated intervention and erosion, the structure is gradually transformed across the 11 weeks of the Biennale. Ax’s work examines material memory, occupation, and change, as meaning emerges through instability.

About Anastasia Ax:
The artist’s practice operates at the intersection of body, material, and language. Working with performance, installation, sound, and sculpture, they explore processes of rupture, breakdown, and transformation. Using materials such as paper, concrete, and plaster, her work unfolds through physical actions that activate material in real time. The body functions as a primary tool for listening, shaping, and dismantling, investigating memory, power, and the limits of language.

Settlers (Malta)

Qabel it-tnedija tal-Biennale ta’ Malta 2026, l-artista Żvediża Anastasia Ax ser tippreżenta prestazzjoni lajv li tifforma parti mill-proġett tagħha Settlers (Malta). Ax ser tippreżenta installazzjoni speċifika għas-sit tagħha li nbniet minn blokok tal-konkrit u ġebel tal-ġir minn sorsi lokali. Permezz ta’ intervent ripetut u tal-erożjoni l-istruttura tiġi ttrasformata bil-mod il-mod tul il-11-il ġimgħa tal-Biennale. Ix-xogħol ta’ Ax jistħarreġ il-memorja materjali, l-okkupazzjoni u l-bidla hekk kif is-sinifikat joħroġ permezz tal-instabbiltà.

Dwar Anastasia Ax:

Il-prattika tal-artista topera fl-intersezzjoni bejn il-ġisem, il-materjal u l-lingwa. Billi taħdem bil-prestazzjoni, l-installazzjoni, il-ħoss u l-iskultura tesplora proċessi ta’ sfrattu, kollass u trasformazzjoni. Bl-użu ta’ materjali bħal karta, konkrit u ġibs ix-xogħol tagħha jiżvolġi permezz ta’ azzjonijiet fiżiċi li jattivaw il-materjal f’ħin reali. Il-ġisem jiffunzjona bħala għodda primarja għas-smigħ, għat-tiswir u għaż-żarmar billi jinvestiga l-memorja, il-poter u l-limiti tal-lingwa.