The Adventure Bank – 2021
Ceramic installation
525cm x 320cm

The Adventure Bank explores the cartography of the Sicilian Channel, a submerged geological threshold between Sicily, Tunisia, and Malta, and the shallowest point of the northern margin of the African continental plate. Through a series of ceramic pieces based on bathymetric maps, the work translates scientific data into a material language, highlighting the hidden layers of the maritime territory.

This fragment of the Mediterranean has historically been a space of transit and dispute, where the earliest routes between Europe and Africa overlap with contemporary geopolitical dynamics. Ceramics, with its archaeological resonance and connection to navigation, serves as a medium that inscribes underwater geography onto a tangible surface.

By bringing the morphology of the seabed into the exhibition space, The Adventure Bank makes visible the physical and political dimensions of the submerged landscape. The work invites reflection on how the sea, far from being an empty and uniform expanse, is a territory encoded by strategic, ecological, and symbolic interests.