Blank examines sites of erasure within Malta’s urban landscape, where buildings have been removed or transformed, leaving exposed surfaces that register absence. These blank walls operate as indexes of rupture, marking the quiet but persistent traces of displacement and change.
Grounded in site-based research and a restrained visual approach, the work resists spectacle, instead attending to what remains after the event. The images do not reconstruct what has been lost but engage with how absence is held, absorbed, and made visible through the landscape itself.
Presented at the Malta Biennale 2026, Blank was awarded the Falcon Award for Best Work, shared with Concetta Modica. The project situates these sites within a broader reflection on memory, transformation, and the production of emptiness in contemporary urban environments.
