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Scheherazade exhibition poster
Exhibition
Scheherazade
13 Dec 2019 – 14 Feb 2020
Regular hours
- Friday
- 11:30 – 19:00
- Saturday
- 11:30 – 19:00
- Tuesday
- 11:30 – 19:00
- Wednesday
- 11:30 – 19:00
- Thursday
- 11:30 – 19:00
Address
- 15, 16, 17 Triq Lvant
- Valletta
Valletta - VLT1253
- Malta
Travel Information
- A 10 minutes walk from the Valletta Bus Terminal
Sheherazade is a multi-disciplinary exhibition by Maltese artist Charlie Cauchi dealing with issues of female and migrant identity in the context of 1960s Soho, London.
About
Scheherazade, a solo show by well-known local artist Charlie Cauchi, will take over and transform Valletta Contemporary into a space where coercion and cruelty, love and violence, sex and entertainment are made palpable. Cauchi's work consists of a multi-disciplinary and immersive installation built around the concept of a London Soho nightclub.The exhibition will act as a pinpoint of light into the history of this dark underbelly, a place once renowned as the scandalous city of vice. This exhibition is not a historical reproduction of the past. Rather, it deals with issues of female identity and migrant identity, eschewing sentimentality in the process.
Scheherazade is also a major female character in middle eastern literature and the narrator of the tales in 'A Thousand and One Arabian Nights', keeping the sultan alive as an act of self-preservation. Cauchi strives to bring a feminine subjectiveness and her own distinct perspective to a topic that has been viewed mostly from a male standpoint, one that often glorifies rather than scrutinizes.
