Trevor Borg

Trevor Borg is a multidisciplinary artist, curator, and academic based in Malta. His practice traverses place and space, delves into ambiguous territory, and oscillates between the poetic and the political. Often, his work explores the intersection of ecocriticism, history, and materiality. Borg’s portfolio spans a wide range of media, including drawing, painting, sculpture, film, and installation.
Trevor Borg’s work has been featured in numerous local and international exhibitions, including the Venice Biennale, the Beijing International Art Biennale, the London Design Biennale, the Malta Biennale, the European Parliament in Brussels, and various prestigious museums and galleries worldwide.
Borg is the Head of the Department of Digital Arts at the University of Malta, a member of the creative practice-led research network LAND2 in the UK, and an associate at Cut Contemporary Fine Arts Lab at Cyprus University of Technology. In 2023, as part of the Open Square Collective, he received the Arts Council Malta Best International Achievement Award.
In the installation, “FIND:FADE” viewers encounter a meticulously curated assemblage of faded objects, each piece straddling the boundaries between reality and imagination, past and present. The work is loosely based on a significant archaeological cave find in Malta that had uncovered a large collection of objects effectively lost in time. Over the years, many stories have been told, forgotten, erased, and revised.
The cabinet itself, a timeless vessel, unifies everything, allowing the collection to be encountered against the backdrop of an ancient past and a reimagined present. Each object serves as a portal to vanished epochs and forgotten eras, inviting viewers to reflect on the interplay between the material and the conjectural. Through this interplay, the cabinet becomes a meditative space where archaeological fragments converge with the uncertainties of speculation, offering a poignant reflection on the shifting nature of history and the passage of time.