Andreas Treske, chair of the Department of Communication and Design, is participating in the international exhibition “For Want of (Not) Measuring,” which opened on March 12 at Spazju Kreattiv in Malta and runs until May 3, 2026.
The exhibition is curated by Prof. Vince Briffa (University of Malta), one of the invited artists of the Malta Pavilion at the parallel 2026 Malta Biennale, and brings together ten international artists.
Treske’s contribution includes a video triptych that explores what escapes quantification. His works approach the video frame not as a window onto events, but as a measuring tool that ultimately reveals its own limitations.
His main work, Girl in the Water, questions the act of witnessing by presenting an unseen emergency that exists only through sound, beyond the visible frame. While the camera appears to measure the horizon with precision, a person is drowning just outside the frame—an event that remains invisible to the eye but perceptible through sound. In this way, the work challenges the reliability of visual perception and asks what it means to truly witness.
The other works, FMB20, recorded during the 2020 pandemic, and Salt Lake Studies (39.07467° N, 33.41088° E), recorded at Tuz Gölü between 2022 and 2026, further examine themes of time, space and documentation.
