Rainer Maria Rilke, in one of his Letters to a Young Poet, wrote that “nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings. Things aren’t all so tangible and sayable as people would usually have us believe; most experiences are unsayable, they happen in a space that no word has ever entered…” Ostracised (2020), Paul Scerri Gathered amid the artworks of the exhibition Darkness at Noon, finding increasingly that words are failing us, Rilke’s assertion on the unsayable had a poignant presence upon its recollection by Charles Balzan, one of the three artists exhibiting.