To be ‘lost in the ether’, is to say that one is engrossed in a communication or visual that has no fixture in space or time; it has no precise location or context. Through her collection ‘Lost in the Ether’, which constitutes her first solo exhibition, Nicole Sciberras Debono brings forward esoteric narratives of a domestic familiarity, with notes on online and para-social relationships.
Debono’s debut collection captures intimate and abstruse moments, belonging to either herself or her peers with whom she communicates with through various channels online. She sheds light on matters which preoccupy her thoughts, namely loneliness and solitude in the ‘social’ age, understand understanding virtual relationships as well as the digital curation of the self.
