2018. Room installation: drawings, archival photographs, wall drawings, printed wallpaper, books, sculptures, and found objects.
This installation brings to life the remarkable Margaret Murray (1863–1963). Murray was an archaeologist, Egyptologist, and feminist who lived to be 100. In the 1920s she excavated the Maltese temple of Borġ in-Nadur, and she became captivated by the island’s old legends, publishing a book of them in 1932.
Murray has been largely forgotten, and the installation is partly an act of remembering her. But it also does something more playful: woven into her real life story is an invented myth, written by Bettina Hutschek, that imagines how the ancient temple people of Malta vanished. Fact and fiction blur into one another, so that it becomes hard to tell where history ends and storytelling begins.
Exhibition Views at MCA, Valletta, 2018
