Art from Elsewhere: DEEP THROAT
AES+F, Inna Artemova, Aaron Bezzina, Andreas Blank, Claudia Chaseling, Gabriel Doucet Donida, Margret Eicher, Nezaket Ekici, Mariana Hahn, Anna Jungjohan, Sarah Lüdemann (Beauham), Duška Malešević, Shahar Marcus, Milovan Destil Markovic, Almagul Menlibayeva, Kirsten Palz, Nina E. Schönefeld, David Szauder, Vadim Zakharov, Zhou Xiaohu
MOMENTUM’s 15th Anniversary Program
Curated by Rachel Rits-Volloch & Emilio Rapanà
31 October – 29 November 2025
In Malta at Valletta Contemporary
Art from Elsewhere: DEEP THROAT brings the sixth edition of MOMENTUM’s acclaimed travelling exhibition series to Malta, presented in partnership with Valletta Contemporary as part of MOMENTUM’s 15th Anniversary Program. Art from Elsewhere reframes the MOMENTUM Collection in dialogue with global urgencies and local contexts, taking on a distinct form in each international iteration – including Germany, Korea, Uzbekistan, Serbia, Mexico, and now Malta.
In Malta, at the crossroads of Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, Art from Elsewhere: DEEP THROAT turns its gaze to the obscene performance of contemporary geopolitics. The exhibition explores how power, media, and spectacle merge in a world where politics increasingly resembles pornography: provocative, performative, and desensitizing.
Bringing together 20 international artists, in a dialogue between the MOMENTUM Collection and artists from Malta, the exhibition exposes how art can cut through the noise of manipulation, propaganda, and spectacle to reclaim empathy, complexity, and humanity. The works confront the fractures of globalization, the violence of inequality, and the shifting terrains of identity and truth to reveal the human stories that persist behind the theatre of power.
The title DEEP THROAT exploits a deliberately gaudy double-edged metaphor, invoking both the infamous 1970’s porn film and the eponymous informant behind the Watergate scandal. Here, the obscene is rooted not only in desire but in exposure: the relentless public staging of violence, scandal, and suffering as entertainment.
At the heart of this exhibition lies the paradox that defines our time: we crave privacy yet live in a culture of voluntary exhibitionism; we distrust surveillance yet broadcast our lives for likes and clicks. In this feedback loop of watching and being watched, DEEP THROAT asks how we might still see and feel deeply in a world addicted to exposure. In the obscene theatre of contemporary geopolitics, where truth and performance collapse into one, art can remind us how to see the world anew – not as consumers of images, but as witnesses capable of empathy, reflection, and imagination.