Elisabetta Di Maggio. Mapping the Air.

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The concept for this project revolves around a central theme for Elisabetta Di Maggio: the communication networks necessary for the transmission of information. Di Maggio's works expose the connections between the strands, circuits, grids, structures and networks that belong to different worlds, but are all together components of the existence in which we spend our time and everyday life.

When we speak of circuits or networks, we might think of the complex line structure of a leaf, the network structure that emerges on human skin, the line network of the underground railway or the extremely complicated outline of a nerve cell: viewed up close, these apparently point elements that are far apart show numerous parallels. The lines that depict the shapes of our brain's synapses are reminiscent, for example, of the roots and branches of trees, the precise and detailed depictions in an old treatise on botany. The delicate threads of the plant world and the cycles of the human body evoke relationships and are reminiscent of the complexity of human communication networks.

True reality is based on maps drawn in the air. Indeed, it looks like a "map of the air," so unseen are the connections and circuits by which life on Earth evolves. This means that all that sustains life and directs natural and human activity is regulated within pathways and networks that cannot be seen or perceived. Ultimately, however, these prove to be fundamental structures that connect and support the energies and the living beings.

Elisabetta Di Maggio's project Mapping the Air is a metaphorical reflection on our existence as part of a whole, as a fragment of the natural world, which proves to be infinitely mutable in the micro- and macroscopic dimensions and constantly renewed thanks to the extraordinary productivity of its laws.

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