Artist Lawrence Buttigieg's exhibition 'Desire & its Excess' is on view at Spazju Kreattiv in Valletta until March 1, curated by Gloria Lauri-Lucente. The show brings together painting, box-assemblage, and film to explore desire as an embodied, relational force that resists closure, focusing on the reciprocal exchange between artist and female subject within the studio space.
The exhibition matters because it reframes desire not as a resolved or satisfied impulse but as an ongoing, generative circuit that connects bodies, materials, and viewers. By emphasizing the tactile, shared nature of the gaze, Buttigieg challenges traditional dynamics of observation and mastery, inviting audiences into an active field of longing and curiosity that extends beyond the artwork itself.