22/05/2026
Climate change transformed into an image suspended between poetry, inquietude, and possibility, a space where threat and hope, vulnerability and light coexist.
“Planet Aqua”, the illustration created by Emiliano Ponzi in collaboration with Accurat for the Venice Climate Week, is not simply a manifesto. It is a vision. A vision that overturns the traditional way we look at our planet: no longer an Earth defined by its landmasses, but a world shaped by water, by its vastness and its fragile balances.
It is humanity standing before the climate crisis, poised on the edge of an irreversible transformation, suspended between fear and hope, overwhelmed by a wave that may become either catastrophe or rebirth.
The project embodies the two souls of the Venice Climate Week: on one side, the evocative power of visual storytelling; on the other, the rigor of scientific analysis. The shapes, reflections, circles, and graphic signs flowing through the illustration are in fact visual translations of climate data. These datasets are not simply layered onto the artwork, but become an integral part of its visual grammar, creating a piece where imagination and scientific precision, emotion and knowledge, exist together.
Ponzi and Accurat bring to Venice a universal visual language capable of transcending cultural and linguistic boundaries. Because art does not impose an answer. It ignites an intuition.
