Daniela d'Arielli's 'La geografia è destino' at Ceravento, Pescara

The Ceravento gallery in Pescara, directed by Loris Maccarone, hosts Daniela d'Arielli's first site-specific solo show 'La geografia è destino', open until September 13, 2025. The title is borrowed from Mohsin Hamid's novel 'Exit West', mediated by Antonella Finucci's 'Scellerate'. The exhibition revolves around 156 watercolors on envelopes treated with seawater, depicting Italian ports, with four envelopes dedicated to Abruzzo ports and Lampedusa adorned with 24-karat gold stars. The works are informed by Anne Carson's 'Anthropology of Water' and an atlas from the 1990s covered in blue velvet with water parts gilded. The critical text is by Giulia Palladini. D'Arielli, born in Ortona in 1978, often works with water, favoring long-term projects, site-specific installations, painting, photography, and textiles. The show explores geography and destiny as open concepts related to displacement, travel, belonging, and identity.