For One Solid Time, WET : the Swimming Pool in the Imagination

This exhibition explores the swimming pool as a significant motif within the history of contemporary art. It unites artists who have explored the complexity of the pool, using it as a symbol of both prosperity and catastrophe, joy and solitude: a metaphor for our search for order and serenity in an increasingly uncertain future.
At once an architectural and sculptural object, a geometric space, and a stage for bodily experiences, the pool embodies the control of nature, and a form of collective dreaming tied to modernity, well-being and intimacy. It emerges as an ambivalent site, capable of evoking serenity as much as solitude, fulfilment as much as emptiness, luxury as much as ruin.