Spazju Kreattiv presents “Melita, מלט -mlṭ, refuge,” a solo exhibition by Anne Immelé (b.1972) through April 7. Immelé is a French photographer and curator who uses photography to explore the human relationship with territory from an expanded perspective.

The project on display stems from Immelé’s visits to caves across Malta islands, where she discovered traces of the ancient Phoenician civilization and related them to modern migration routes. Phoenician traders established bases across the Mediterranean between 1200 BC and 300 BC, crossing Malta, Sicily, and Tunisia. Immelé traveled along the route, relating modern migration to the voyages of the ancients.

Immelé’s photographs document the contemporary phenomenon of migration while inviting a broader temporal and geographical perspective, arousing poetic imagination. The exhibition is organized as part of the Malta Biennale 2024.