Ca’ del Duca 3052, Corte del Duca Sforza
San Marco, 30124, Venezia, Italy
10am - 6pm Tuesday - Saturday
Dawit Abebe Ethiopia, b. 1978
Untitled is an installation that reflects on how every movement leaves a trace, and how the accumulation of countless individual gestures gradually reshapes the geography of a place. Through 54 historical maps of Venice, arranged across six vertical panels corresponding to the city's sestieri, Abebe layers the surfaces with charcoal, allowing the original cartography to slowly disappear beneath an expanding field of black. Here, darkness becomes a metaphor for fullness: a space holding the countless presences, journeys and memories that have shaped the city over time. In the final row, the artist's own barefoot steps enter the composition, adding his presence to this ongoing accumulation. Venice emerges not simply as a mapped territory, but as a geography continually rewritten by those who walk through it.
