A new solo exhibition by Maltese artist Glenn Ellul titled “Architopia: Echoes of Elsewhere” will open at il-Kamra ta’ Fuq on 12th June, with an opening night event at 7.30pm. The exhibition runs until 28th June and is curated by Melanie Erixon.The exhibition presents a series of intricate ink drawings that explore the fragile boundary between memory, imagination, and architecture.The title suggests an invented architectural ideal—an imagined “place” suspended between utopia, fantasy, and psychological space—while “Echoes of Elsewhere” evokes distance and recollection, referencing fragments of places that feel both familiar and unreal.Drawing from personal visual memory shaped by local Maltese architecture and travels across Europe, Asia, and South America, Ellul constructs speculative environments that include impossible cities, suspended ruins, sacred interiors, and monumental structures that feel both ancient and futuristic.The works recall literary and artistic influences such as Invisible Cities, the etchings of Giovanni Battista Piranesi, and the spatial paradoxes of MC Escher, alongside echoes of Maltese architect Richard England.Executed entirely by hand in ink, the works are built through meticulous repetition and layered linework, with no mechanical assistance. Ellul’s practice treats architecture as a language for internal states, transforming thought and emotion into dense spatial systems. Rather than presenting fixed narratives, the drawings invite prolonged observation, gradually revealing their complexity as viewers move through them visually and mentally.“In these works, architecture becomes a way of translating internal complexity into structured space,” the exhibition text notes, describing environments where time and perception become fluid and where distinctions between real and imagined dissolve.Ellul is a self-taught Maltese artist with a background in graphic design and interactive media.He first exhibited solo in 2021 with “Structures of the Mind,” and has since developed a practice focused on intricate architectural compositions that merge memory, observation, and imagination.Tag a friend to go with them•