Correspondences art exhibition

Malta Contemporary Art is presenting an exhibition, titled Correspondences, a project that links a programme of nine exhibitions presented in Portugal, Spain, Germany and Malta to an international colloquium held at Casa das Artes, Oporto, Portugal. A letter excerpt included in Jacques Derrida’s La Carte Postale (1980) is taken as areference for the Correspondences project. In this fragment, dated June 5, 1977, Derrida says: “What I like most about postcards is that we do not know what is in front and what is back, here or there, near or far, Plato or Socrates, face or reverse. Nor what is more important the image or the text or, within the text, the message, the caption or the address.” The postcard is taken as producer of subjectivity, process and life experience, itself an arrangement of correspondences, attempting not only to explore its linguistic, grammatical and rhetorical character, but also the use value it can acquire when integrated within a chain of possible situations. A metaphor for equality, with no face or reverse, here or there, image or text, the postcard exists in this traffic of sent, received, registered, circumvented, returned, stolen, lost, anonymous,...