Kane Cali

The work of Kane Calì positions us at the crossroads between several forces and realities — the natural and man-made; the whole and the fragment; the hopeful and the dystopian; our collective past and an unknown future; intention and chance; the digital and the tactile; the pursuit of beauty and the onset of disaster. This is a critical moment which he is placing us at. As evolution takes us forward, he seems to express that we are at a cusp. This piece warns us of the potential it can have to de-evolutionise it. So far the breaks and collapses he proposes are just a simulation — but he seems to infer that we lie just at its threshold.

KANE CALÌ was born in Malta in 1983. An experimentalist with an acute fascination with the malleability of data, Calì has explored various media, most notably ceramics, glass and other aggregates. While allowing his tools to identify and capture content within both the landscape of the virtual and that of the real, his artistic practice mirrors humanity’s desire for advancement, while remaining firmly grounded in tangible, everyday surroundings.