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Vince Briffa’s video installation OUTLAND, displayed in the Museum of Troy, draws inspiration from Homer’s epic The Odyssey to reinterpret human indecisiveness and the complexity of human relationships. It depicts Odysseus's refusal to accept Calypso's offer of immortality and explores what it means to be human, the struggle of confronting one's own reality, and the desire to escape the anxiety of perceived privileged freedom. Filmed in Malta, the sea is the carrier of this metaphor. Both present on screen and physically in the ‘salt pans’ in the gallery space, it acts as a fluid, reflective expanse that further echoes the concept of topographical vagueness through the drifting demarcation of land and sea, reinforcing the instability of our choice between the security of ‘home’ and the lure of new horizons.