Medium: Inflatable plastic, carpet, and projected light
Exhibition history: Prestorjha (2023)
During the process of developing a three-meter-tall inflatable PVC sculpture called Ninfa working with the visualization design company Solid Eye, Tabone became very interested in the use of inflatable objects in art contexts. Through her research on the subject, she was offered an inflatable sphere by Solid Eye, which she saw could serve well as the basis for Brahmani.
In the Vedic tradition, Brahma created the universe. His body was divided into two parts, which made up all the gods and goddesses. Brahma is both male and female at the point of creation. Brahmani is a Hindu mother goddess, known also as the shakti of Brahma. In that tradition, shakti is energy, power, strength, and capability. This Brahmani is also the power of Brahma.
By naming this work thus, Tabone is once again playing with words, as the name Brahma is a homonym for the Maltese word for jellyfish. The main structure of this work resembles the umbrella-shaped gelatinous sea creature. This art structure does not have the trailing tentacles but instead has two other features that give it more of the other sense associated with its name. Inside the bell-shaped sphere you encounter a projected image of what appears to be outer space. This is the cosmos. Beneath it, however, you get a sense that an eclipse is taking place, owing to the careful placing of a circular carpet on the ground.
