Daniela d'Arielli's Hydrographic Cartography at Monitor Pereto

At Monitor gallery in Pereto, Abruzzo, Daniela d'Arielli (born 1978, Ortona) presents 'A te', an exhibition reimagining geographic maps by foregrounding water over land. The centerpiece is a traditional Abruzzese quilt embroidered with asterisks forming continents, placed on a bed. A video shot from her home in Francavilla al Mare shows a fisherman's boat on the Adriatic, with 'A te' written on fogged glass that fades. Another work features a blood-red thread tracing the planet's water resources on a white sheet. A hydrogeological map is made by trapping a thin layer of salt between plexiglass. The show references Zygmunt Bauman's liquid modernity and the artist's family maritime history. The critical text by Maurizio Coccia compares d'Arielli to a dowser. The exhibition runs at Monitor's Pereto space in 2023.