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BODY OF WATER

IMMERSIVE INSTALLATION
2024, Installation
Tamar Blom and Federico Murgia 

Body of water is a condensed healing ritual.

Standing in the darkness, suddenly you are confronted with a powerful stream of water coming your way, coming for you perhaps. Separated from this force only by a thin sheet of plexiglass, the body reacts. It jump scares, intimately aware of the possible danger of such a powerful force. Standing there, facing the unpredictable whirls, you may become aware of a sense of agency within this water. It may feel as if there is an entity that is coming for you, trying to communicate.

Adapted to this sense of danger and realizing you are only getting wet slightly, the body slowly relaxes. Feeling more leveled with the water and able to face it head-on. At this point, the introduction of flickering lights takes you on a journey into a parallel reality where the water jet patterns become abstract and at some stages even ungraspable. It has been said to have felt like a psychedelic experience, a journey into space, through black holes, clouds and lightning, solar radiation, into that liminal space right before death.

Body of Water may show you the universe or deep inside your subconscious, is about your own relation with water.

When the water deems is enough, the entities disappear and throw you back into this world. Having shown you the power of nature, the force of water and its interconnectedness with the world around you, one question remains: What will you do now?

In Chinese philosophy water is one of the main elements to think about the world. It tells us to think with water, to be like water. It shows us the plasticity of water and tells us to be placid as well. It shows us how to be adaptable, to move and act like water and to adapt ourselves to our circumstances. Water can be strong, and water can be calm. Let us act for it to remain calm.


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