THE CATALOGUE

NO NEED TO SPARKLE; EXPERIMENTS IN LOVE AND REVOLUTION

The official catalogue of the Malta Pavilion at the 61st International Art Exhibition at La Biennale di Venezia 2026

Published by Skira Arte, Experiments in Love and Revolution serves as the critical companion to the Malta Pavilion. Edited by Margerita Pulè and designed by Alexandra Pace, the catalogue functions both as a record of the works of participating artists Adrian MM Abela, Charlie Cauchi, and Raphael Vella, and as an autonomous theoretical collection that extends the pavilion’s inquiries.

The catalogue compiles critical essays and interventions by an interdisciplinary group of writers and thinkers whose contributions engage with post-colonial autonomy, the sociology of protest, attention-capitalist temporality, and the structural limits of contemporary cultural production. Alongside these texts are the research drawings, imagery, and behind-the-scenes photos that form the pavilion’s visual archive. 

An interview with the artists provides an insight and first-hand account of their creative processes, while the introduction provides an overview of the catalogue’s position and content. 

Contents

No Need To Sparkle | Margerita Pulè
The Artworks
The End of Dream Sovereignty | Elena Giulia Abbiatici
Everyday Resistance | Karl Baldacchino
Ugly Nasty Commie Bitch | Carsie Blanton
karozzakorazza | Ryan Falzon
carmour | Ryan Falzon (Joe Gatt, tr)
Protest and Performance | Michael Briguglio
Malta, the Colapesce | Federico Campagna
Sparkles(s), or, Glimmers of Doubt | Mark Cauchi
Sterility, or What Cannot Continue Alone | Valeria Graziano
Unsettling the Surface: Dependency, Dissent, and the Politics of Belonging | Michelle Pace
A Conversation with | Sophie Kazan Makhlouf
How Not to Miss the Revolution | Karl Schembri
The Desire for Slowness | Vid Simoniti
The Contributors
Credits
Acknowledgements
The Commissioner: Arts Council Malta

Experiments in Love and Revolution

Publisher: Skira Arte

Editor: Margerita Pulè

Size 15 × 21 cm (6 × 81⁄4 in.)
144 pages
60 colour illustrations
paperback
ISBN 978-88-572-5519-4

For more information or to source a copy of the catalogue, contact the curator.