Five emerging artists – Alizée Gazeau (from France), Marija Jaensch (from Holland), Amy Thai (from Australia), Sofía Toribio (from Argentina), and Jiaying Wu (from China) – were selected to prepare a visual account of Venice based on first-hand experience. The Water Diaries are narrated in single works or conceived as larger series; while they preserve their individual characters through their distinctive appearance, they correspond to one another through the central theme.
