Liquid Archives

The exhibition, curated by Maddalena Pelù, explores water not only as a natural element, but also as sensitive memory, the female body, ecological force, fluid mythology, and political matter.

Water is a living archive: it gathers, nourishes, washes, dissolves, transmits. In its continuous motion, it carves, caresses, corrodes. It is origin and ruin, mother and tide. It preserves and processes what the earth tends to forget. It is also the vessel of what the Earth produces: in this liquid time, water too reveals itself as fragile. As it flows through the territories of memory, dream, identity, and transformation, it is marked by profound ecological tensions. The liquid archive is not only a place of poetic or symbolic narration, but also of resistance: a memory of the living that asks to be heard, evoking what we risk losing.

The exhibition opens to the practices of the invited artists – Angela Anzi, Katya Ev Anton, Anna Grebner, Marie-Luce Nadal, Clara Rivault, Kiki Smith, Flaminia Veronesi – whose works traverse the liquid as matter, metaphor, emotional element, vital force, nourishment, and existential condition. The works converse like interconnected currents, generating an archive of the fluid in its many guises, where corporeality, memory, and science intertwine.