An artist who represented Malta at the 60th Venice Biennale Arte, Matthew Attard returns to Venice with I Will Follow the Ship, the final outcome of a long research process that began nearly five years ago and culminated with the national pavilion in 2024. This new exhibition serves as a conceptual platform that charts fresh coordinates, reinterpreting the past to open new creative trajectories.
By merging ancestral markings with digital languages, Attard’s work becomes a compass  – where human gesture and technological autonomy blend in a continuous dialogue. It is an ideal harbor, a crossroads where tradition generates new geographies of meaning yet to be explored. These markings, once solitary gestures of devotion, now form a living archive – a constellation of hopes that Attard deciphers through the use of an eye-tracker, a tool capable of translating gaze into a form of drawing.
Each ocular movement of the artist captures the contours of historical graffiti, generating digital sailing ships – hybrid entities suspended between stone and pixel, between human gesture and algorithmic autonomy. They reflect a humanity that has always entrusted its destiny to unseen forces.