Threads of What Remains

Join us for the exhibition launch on Saturday 5th July from 11am to 4pm.

Meet the artist and curator enjoy a glass of wine and take part in individual personalised tours as we celebrate the opening.

Free exhibition

Entrance fees to access to the Museum last admission at 4pm

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Oceans and seas cover more than 70% of our planet. They produce much of the oxygen we breathe provide food and regulate climate systems vital to life on Earth. Yet these vast

ecosystems are under unprecedented pressure. From plastic pollution and ecosystem degradation to overfishing climate change and the looming extinction of marine species the

ocean is facing a crisis of alarming complexity and scale.

Threads of What Remains is an intimate artistic investigation by Katel Delia a seasoned diver who has spent nearly three decades exploring the underwater world firsthand. Through her lens

she captures haunting images of a fragile and unstable marine environment where once-abundant fish populations have given way to vast areas devoid of life and surviving coral reefs bear traces of plastic embedded in their delicate structures.

Delia’s unique approach incorporates delicate embroidery on her underwater photographs stitching seabed reliefs and topographical lines that echo the shapes of submerged landscapes near threatened coastlines and reefs. These embroidered threads become a metaphor for the fragile ties connecting humanity to the sea and the urgent need to protect these underwater realms before they disappear.

The exhibition also sheds light on the ocean’s exploitation through destructive practices such as bottom trawling a method that not only devastates seabeds and releases stored carbon but

also proves economically unsustainable in the long run. It reveals how abandoned fishing nets stretching far enough to circle the Earth multiple times continue to threaten marine life and

ecosystems long after being discarded.

Katel’s work draws deeply on her personal experience reminding us that the ocean’s vitality is not infinite. Where divers once encountered untouched reefs and thriving biodiversity just

meters below the surface they now face cliffs of destruction and the silent disappearance of life. The exhibition asks us to reflect on what remains beneath the waves the threads of life memory responsibility and ultimately to reconsider our relationship with the ocean.

Threads of What Remains is an intimate journey through the fragile underwater world. It is a call to awareness safekeeping and hope and an invitation to witness the sea’s beauty and

vulnerability and to act before its wonders become relics of the past.

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Wignacourt Museum

Parish Sqr College Str.

Rabat RBT 1400

Malta