FEVER ARCHIVE

An automated system continuously accesses fragments of media, returning again and again to the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia—not to recount the event, but to inhabit its unresolved spaces and the wider social and political conditions surrounding it. The result is a collapse of memory into noise. What remains is not a narrative but residue: endless, partial and deferred, too fragmented and too quickly transmitted to be fully comprehended. The work's intentional framing restricts perception. Presented within a constricted space, Fever Archive requires viewers to physically conform in order to activate it, obliging them to engage on the artist's terms. The work returns to a mode of controlled spectatorship made familiar by Marcel Duchamp's Étant donnés, in which viewing is possible only from a tightly choreographed point of view. Fever Archive translates that restricted, keyhole-like logic of looking into a contemporary networked context, replacing the body in Duchamp's work with a body of data. Commissioned for BLOW-UP by City of Art, Fever Archive was exhibited at Spazju Kreattiv in Valletta, Malta, from 8 November 2025 to 4 January 2026, alongside works and artefacts by or featuring Helmut Newton, Christian Dior, Andrew Grima, Andy Warhol, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Joana Biarnés, David Hockney and Sylvia Plath.