SURFACE

TENSION*

12th March – 10th April
Opening: 12th March, 7pm

A Visual Art Exhibition
Curated by Fabrizio Mifsud Soler

Surface Tension is a photographic project by photographer Daria Troitskaia, examining landscapes from above at the fragile meeting points between water, ice, and land.

Shot from helicopters, the work removes horizon and scale, transforming recognisable environments into near-abstract surfaces shaped by pressure, temperature, and time. Moving from warm waters to colder environments, the series traces a quiet shift from flow to fracture, from permeability to brittleness.

Taken across Malta, Mauritius, Iceland, St. Moritz (Switzerland), and Lake Como (Italy), the images are linked by recurring visual elements such as edges, seams, and cracks, moments where materials meet without fully merging. Many of the conditions captured exist only briefly and cannot be repeated in the same way.

Surface Tension invites slow and attentive looking, foregrounding colour, structure, and material tension over narrative or spectacle.

On show between the
12th March – 10th April 2026

The Grist, The Brewhouse, Level 4
at The Brewhouse, Level 4, Mriehel, Malta.

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