The Banality of Instagram Stories is a series of mixed media drawings, portraying the real world as detached while the ephemeral virtual reality is immediate and more significant,exciting and fulfilling, reflecting Falzon’s staple ingredient of duality, of multiple meanings and ambiguity.
The unlimited possibilities
made available by the virtual platform build tense situations based on the
promise of more excitement and fulfillment. As on the free-flowing digital
media, where adrenaline is fed to the mind via a screen, the dynamics of time
are changing so fast that one barely has time to take in the changes and
updates, let alone analyze the impact on our overall well-being.
A selection of these drawings were exhibited at Gallery Biffi (Piacenza, IT) and Malta Stock Exchange (Valletta, MT).