URNA

Urna was Malta’s Pavilion at the 5th London Design Biennale at Somerset House. The artists wanted the audience to confront the fragility of permanence, reminding us that stone, like human life, is not fixed but part of an ongoing cycle of transformation. The exhibit challenges perception of material as static, offering instead a vision of continuity, renewal, and return. It is an object to be observed and an experience to be felt by its gravity and its resonance with the Maltese landscape. Ultimately, Urna is a meditation on how we memorialise, how we locate the sacred in a secular world, and how we position ourselves within the vast rhythms of time and nature. Urna is a 2.4 metre reconstituted stone sculpture that represents the ‘architecture of passage’ where matter, memory and rituals merge around transformation, death and remembrance. Urna won the Best Overall Contribution Award at the London Design Biennale 2025.