Threads Of What Remains: Katel Delia’s Exhibition Highlights Fragility Of Our Marine Environment
A hauntingly beautiful exhibition by Maltese-based artist Katel Delia is making its way to the Wignacourt Museum this July and it’s one that will leave you thinking about the sea like never before.
Titled Threads of What Remains, the exhibition runs from 5th to 26th July, with an opening day event on 5th July from 11am to 4pm in Rabat’s historic museum.
Curated by Melanie Erixon, the show brings together art, photography and embroidery to explore the fragile relationship between humans and the ocean.
A seasoned diver with nearly 30 years of underwater exploration behind her, Katel Delia turns her lens and needle on the silent devastation lurking beneath the sea’s surface.
From dying coral reefs and plastic-choked habitats to vanishing marine life, Threads of What Remains gives voice to the stories the ocean can’t tell on its own.
Through her underwater photography, stitched with delicate embroidery that traces the seabed’s topography, Delia captures a vanishing world.
Each thread becomes a symbol of our deep connection and responsibility to the marine ecosystems we rely on and so often take for granted.
Her work doesn’t just show the beauty of the sea, it highlights the damage too. From destructive bottom trawling to the never-ending presence of ghost nets, the exhibition is a quiet but powerful call to rethink how we treat our oceans before it’s too late.
Katel Delia, originally from France, has called Malta home since 2016. Her award-winning work has been exhibited both locally and abroad, from Spazju Kreattiv to Paris’s Circulation(s) Festival.
This new exhibition is another powerful chapter in her mission to make us see the invisible and to care about it.