ARTIST: BOBB ATTARD

xemgħa (candle)
‘Xemgħa (Candle)’ by Bob Attard

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Bobb Attard is a Maltese visual artist, currently based in Prishtina, Kosovo. His work often wanders around the complexities of the human brain while sometimes adding elements of absurdism, social parody and dark humour.

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Stripes
‘Stripes’ by Bob Attard

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Daydream
‘Daydream’ by Bob Attard

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Having found himself unexpectedly stuck in Prishtina due to COVID-19 restrictions despite planning to stay for just 4 days, self-portraiture has been his main medium of expression. Using the spaces he found himself in as a backdrop to his unforeseen personal therapeutic journey in Kosovo, he plays around the concepts of boredom, loneliness, existentialism and self-healing. His face is often obscured in order to create an ambiguous human figure, dissociating himself from feelings of shame and regret stemming from past traumas while paradoxically facing these emotions, adding an element of dualism.

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Boxes
‘Boxes’ by Bob Attard

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To explore Attard’s work further please visit Instagram and the artist’s website.

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To explore more queer contemporary art please visit www.balaclavadotq.net.

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Published by Stiofan O'Ceallaigh

Stiofan O'Ceallaigh is a multi-media artist and curator born in Ireland, currently working between the USA and Europe. O'Ceallaigh is also founder of Balaclava.Q - An international Queer Arts Project & Collective (Established 2016) . Working internationally, exhibiting mainly across Europe and N/S. America O'Ceallaigh's focus is an exploration of the understanding of a queer aesthetic, if indeed, there is one. A personal journey, and an acknowledgement to the status flux, O'Ceallaighs work seeks to emancipate those who know it, simply by promoting discourse around areas such as HIV, queer art censorship, body politic and internalised shame/stigma>pride, and fundamentally an effort to reduce hate... in all its forms.

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