Everybody talks about the water in Venice

Catalogue of the exhibition “Everybody Talks About the Weather” that explore the semantics of “weather” in visual art, taking atmospheric conditions as a point of departure to investigate the emergency of climate crisis
The project is conceived by curator Dieter Roelstraete for the historic palazzo of Ca’ Corner della Regina, Fondazione Prada’s Venetian venue, between 20 May and 26 November 2023.

"In difficult times, Venetians console each other by telling one another 'sie ore ea cresse, sie ea caea', i.e., every six hours the water rises, entering from the sea to the lagoon, and then falls again, six hours later.
This aquatic metaphor is a traditional proverb meaning that adversities come and go during life, like the tides, thus reminding us how much everyday life in Venice depends on the city's relationship with water.
It is a relationship that has always influenced and marked every other relationship environmental, cultural, social, and political and whose marks are part of the very fabric of the city and its past experience. Think, for example, of the ubiquitous sound of the water of the canals or the traces left by the fluctuating level of the tides on the walls and steps. The latter is an image so characteristic of Venice that it has become part of the 'local art. Examples include Maria Morganti and her pictorial Sedimentations, metaphors of weather and existential time, and Giorgio Andreotta Cald and his Core Samples taken in the lagoon, which, albeit in different ways, also 'photograph' the stratifications of time (geological and symbolic)." Cristina Baldacci