Walls, Corners and Algaue Blooms

Walls, Corners, and Algae Blooms

2025

Installation with beam projections, sound, drawings and semi see-through fabrics on the window.

In "Walls, Corners and Algae Blooms," I bring the scene of an overgrown swimming pool into the exhibition space of Matjö. A private outdoor pool, left abandoned in a garden for several years, has gradually transformed into a habitat for various organisms.

Over time, mulberry bushes crept across its boundaries. Algae spread, making the gathered rainwater become hazy green, and the four-tiled wall-enclosed space became the habitat of backswimmers, water beetles and aquatic salamanders. The algae are like liquid curtains drawn across the space, blurring the pool's boundaries and creating comfort and privacy for its inhabitants.

To those outside the water, the animals, as they come to the surface, appear like glimpses of a parallel life, as if one sees inside of a house through a window—while acoustically, only the sounds of one's own world remain perceptible such as neighbouring gardens, kids playing, trains, and airplanes. All these sounds around the pool can be heard as if one is listening to them while being inside the water.