Stefan Spiteri

Through the Eye of the Needle
08.02.24 – 29.02.24
Malta Society of Arts
Valletta, Malta

Weaving is an act of pact-making. It is a coming together of two bodies as something that transcends what they are able to stand as alone. Sewing goes even further in securing the permanence of this pact. The needle binds and takes from each material, whilst introducing a foreign body to keep it held tight. If we can see through the eye of the needle the world could appear quite different. Stefan Spiteri doesn’t paint a picture of it, he takes the time to weave it into place and does it within a long lineage of threaded histories.

THROUGH THE EYE OF THE NEEDLE is a spiritual reckoning within a world that often stops at edifice. Stefan Spiteri uses the needle to show there is more depth to a surface than what initially appears – that no element can avoid fraying and that a return to mending is the only way.