Maltese artist Kim Sammut is bringing her year-long exploration of grief, memory, absence and love to a close this September with the third and final exhibition of Just For Today.At the heart of the multidisciplinary project is an intensely personal story, the loss of Sammut’s aunt Lorna to cancer on 22nd September 2023.“I consider this woman to be as much of a mother to me as my biological mother,” Sammut said. “Only she formed my soul instead of my body.”Following Lorna’s death, Sammut repeatedly returned to the handwritten prayers and reflections her aunt had left behind during the final years of her life.Among them was a line Lorna had written to herself, encouraging herself to stop hiding and to live and love herself “just for today”.Those words ultimately gave the project its name.Over the past year, Sammut has used photography, painting, film, sound, installation and ritual to explore grief and respond, in different ways, to the words Lorna left behind.Curated by Sarah Chircop, Just For Today has unfolded across three exhibitions, two workshops, a performance and a final ritual-prayer event.The first exhibition, which opened at Rosa Kwir in March, explored loss and fragmented memory through a spiral structure developed with Marcio Vella, eventually leading visitors towards an intimate encounter with Lorna at its centre.A second exhibition in June delved further into absence, approaching it not simply as emptiness but as something capable of having its own texture, pressure and weight.Now, the project’s final chapter turns towards what remains after someone is gone – love.Opened on 9th September, the third exhibition explores love not as an answer or resolution to grief, but as something that continues alongside it.Developed once again with Marcio Vella and featuring a final sound collaboration with Tina Camilleri, visitors are also invited to leave behind a prayer of their own, echoing the handwritten words that first inspired Sammut’s project.Throughout the year, Just For Today has also moved beyond the exhibition space.Two intergenerational workshops, Touching Grief and Touching Life, led by Ruth Borg and Sara Amin Omran and coordinated by fatima a.m., invited participants to explore grief and aliveness through movement, embodiment and collective reflection.Hospice Malta social worker Gloria Spiteri has meanwhile supported Sammut and the wider team throughout the project in an advisory and after-care capacity.And the project will come full circle on 22nd September, exactly three years since Lorna’s death.Guests will gather in Manikata for a short sunset walk along one of Lorna’s favourite routes before heading to The Veg Box.There, Sammut and Camilleri will perform a piece bringing together Lorna’s prayers and those left behind by visitors throughout the final exhibition.The gathering will serve as a final communal moment to remember, reflect and love, bringing a deeply personal year-long artistic journey back to the person and words that started it all.Just For Today is supported by Arts Council Malta and Rosa Kwir, with the ongoing support of Hospice Malta.Share with someone who’d be interested!•