Bortolami Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of twenty-seven watercolors by Madeline Hollander in the Upstairs, her second show at the gallery. These works on paper spring from the artist’s research and preparation for Hydro Parade, a performance series at the Metropolitan Museum of Art which will run concurrently to the exhibition in June. Each watercolor is produced using water sourced from the natural spring beneath the museum, which runs alongside the Old Croton Aqueduct, the waterway that once supplied New York City.

Hollander’s research-based practice culminates in a series of records— choreography, video, installation, and notational drawings—exploring the oft-imperceptible movement within various systems and the actors they interpolate. Her choreographic performance Hydro Parade traces the visible and hidden circuits of water that populate the Met, from the network of natural springs running beneath its buildings, to the series of fountains housed in its varied collections. A procession of dancers rhythmically journey through the aisles of the museum, like a stream flowing from wing to wing, lacing together a host of seemingly unconnected historic objects and waterways.