Water

To Walk on Water …

By contrast to the many manifestations emulating reality, as made possible by modern technology, this installation invites beholders to play in their own way with an imaginary space shaped by images.
To this end, large, equal-size photographs showing various images of water have been placed on the floor, producing a double, contra-directional alienation. This results from the fact that the theme of the installation has been taken literally: water is the basis of life and here appears on the floor of the exhibition space, turning the imaginary water surface into a surface area that can be stepped on.
Indeed, it is an odd sensation to be able to walk over the reflecting reproductions of bays, canals, puddles, swimming pools, wastewater basins and body parts. It feels strange to move across the picture surfaces, yet to realize that the water under ones feet is stagnant. What normally absorbs one’s body here appears in a frozen state. It affects one’s inner and outer movements as one’s eyes dip into the various images of water taken across the globe, only rarely recognizable as showing a specific place. As pictures of water, they follow their own current and reveal manifold rhythms; one can rely on them as they carry one from the ground.

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