“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust The title of Fabio Borg’s exhibition, Revisited Memories, suggests an exercise in remembering, a summoning of ghosts. Marcel Proust, in his famous novel Remembrance of Things Past , dwells on memories triggered by the most seemingly mundane of experiences, like the taste of a Madeleine cupcake or an unsteady, loose tile. For Borg, it is the occasional visits to places that have a connection with his childhood that jogs his memory and sends him down memory lane. “This was the idea behind my sixth solo exhibition” he says. “Streets in the Sliema and Gżira area are no longer recognisable. In fact, the paintings, We are destroying our Heritage and Irregular Constructs, reflect mainly this by showing the ugliness of the concrete constructions created today.” He fears that the Maltese countryside will soon be lost to rampant development which will alter it irrevocably. The Maltese landscape is most inspiring for the artist; he thinks that its beauty needs to be appreciated by one and all. “For this reason, I am trying to preserve some of it on canvas, in hope that this...