Jeudi 23 Avril 2015 10:30:26 par Clarisse Treilles dans Expositions

In April, the air is crystal clear, the sky—light and blue. Rain gushes on the streets. People are getting busy. Stars are still hinting at other universes. The TV is running in the back of the apartment. Some surreal soap is on, then the news. Hot summer is coming.

SWIMMING POOL presents its inaugural exhibition Balconia with Stefania Batoeva, Yves Scherer and Emanuel Röhss. For this first show the artists traverse the real to denote new possibilities.

The premises of the space—a terrace with a pool on the top of a modernist building in the center of Sofia—define the horizon. When you look around you see the rooftops of Sofia, a rough and visually eclectic city. Back on the roof, the exhibition operates within a dated domestic setting—infused with fragmented memories.

"Balconia" refers to a vacation spent at home. It means travelling slow, travelling inwards, not swapping geographies but re-defining one's perspective of the world from one's own balcony. It is a desire to transform that does not lead to consumerism but envisions new realities.