Neutral Buoyancy, 2023

National Aquarium Artist-in-Residence Nicoletta Darita de la Brown, created multiple experimental videos that portray water as a modality of healing and how it feels to be submerged. These films were projected throughout the Aquarium and layered with sound components for a multi-sensory experience.

In addition to her video artworks, Nicoletta performed for over 650 guests from the crest of Blacktip Reef and throughout the National Aquarium, Baltimore MD.

Her performance art is described as ritual and as a dance-like-ceremony. For this aspect of her practice, the artist is also the art.

"I sculpt space with my body as I activate my environment as moving, living, breathing art." - Nicoletta