RITUAL
SAM Alekksandra
& JULIEN Vinet
(PONKS)
At Mouhit Space; Tunis.
// 8-17 November 2024 //
Julien Vinet
A Parisian Artist Based In Malta;
Julien Vinet’s artwork is rooted in a transcendence of media, using traditional Japanese ink techniques and contemporary experimentation.
His delicate know-how manifests itself in fragile, organic creations – glass, paper and aluminum – punctuated by natural imperfections.
From Maltese tile impressions to the cracks left by drying glue, his art is alive with the textures of his labor, and blurs the boundary between material and metaphor.
Vinet’s art expresses the Mediterranean spirit: multilayered, transient yet fundamentally human.
Sam Alekksandra
A Multidisciplinary Poet From Malta.
Sam Alekksandra translates spoken word into objects, performances and films.
Recognized for her fragmented, raw explorations of memory and identity, her work is multi-continental, including recent exhibitions in China, Germany and France.
In her first solo exhibition, OSCILLATIONS (2024), Alekksandra immersed herself in pain- pleasure, musing philosophically on East-West dialogues.
Aleksandra’s poetry is a visceral encounter, forging paths from the tangible to the indefinable.
Held in the intimate yet expansive mouhit space in tunis, the exhibition became a living narrative of the mediterranean. The venue, with its raw textures and open spaces, echoed the themes of resilience and transformation, turning itself into an active participant in the artistic dialogue.
RITUAL originated from a common vision – fuse Vinet’s visionary visual art with Alekksandra’s poetic sensibility.
Together, they cooperated with seamen, artists from Tunisia, architects, poets – and local residents – bringing all their personal and cultural perspectives into the exhibition.
Ritual as transformation
The heart of the exhibition, RITUAL considers the ways in which ancient Mediterranean rituals – birth, migration, work, death – are instruments of resilience and connection in a fractured world.
The exhibit raises awareness of how rituals, inherited and reinvented, might contribute to humanity’s ability to confront such global concerns of environmental degradation, social erosion or migratory crises.
Immersing their audience in the Mediterranean’s durable dualities – constancy yet change – Vinet and Alekksandra recall the capacity for self-transformation and self-transcendence.
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