“…emerging with work that demands attention. Influenced by post-essentialist, queer, and feminist thinkers, [Ariella] makes work for those who’ve been taught to shrink themselves – to withhold joy, to stay silent, to submit. Her practice explores the politics of control, pleasure, and the body. She uses materials like condoms, zip ties, and expanding foam to give physical form to tension and resistance. In her 2023 work fear my pleasure, foam is confined but unruly – always finding a way out. Napoli’s process is both instinctive and deliberate, shaped by a desire to reclaim space for messiness, sensuality, and transformation. Her strange, sexual, oozy works aren’t just a celebration – they’re an act of reclamation.”

-Indigo James, The Note 2025