work
DERIVE – DRAKE
| category | Painting |
| subject | Abstract, Nature, Political / Social |
| tags | CEMENTO, NERO, BIANCO, ROSSO, POLITICA, SOCIALE, CONCETTUALE, FIGURATIVO, GEOGRAFICO, AMBIENTE |
| base | 60 cm |
| height | 60 cm |
| depth | 5 cm |
| year | 2026 |
DRIFTS
The project explores the transformations of contemporary marine ecosystems through an investigation of pollution, water warming, plastic accumulation, and forced migrations of fish species caused by artificial infrastructures, navigation channels, and ballast waters.
The works are made exclusively from discarded fish skin, a residual material from the food industry, reworked as a sensitive surface and biological archive. The skin becomes a site for inscribing ongoing environmental tensions, offering a fragile and unstable mapping of marine alterations.
Acting as a collective epidermis, the material preserves traces of stress, adaptation, and deterioration, evoking a vulnerable and permeable sea, subjected to systemic and irreversible pressures. The project invites reflection on the sea as a living and political organism, where nature and artificiality intertwine in a condition of permanent drift. Derive-Drake mixed technique on cement, pigment, fish waste, resin.
The project explores the transformations of contemporary marine ecosystems through an investigation of pollution, water warming, plastic accumulation, and forced migrations of fish species caused by artificial infrastructures, navigation channels, and ballast waters.
The works are made exclusively from discarded fish skin, a residual material from the food industry, reworked as a sensitive surface and biological archive. The skin becomes a site for inscribing ongoing environmental tensions, offering a fragile and unstable mapping of marine alterations.
Acting as a collective epidermis, the material preserves traces of stress, adaptation, and deterioration, evoking a vulnerable and permeable sea, subjected to systemic and irreversible pressures. The project invites reflection on the sea as a living and political organism, where nature and artificiality intertwine in a condition of permanent drift. Derive-Drake mixed technique on cement, pigment, fish waste, resin.
