Swimming Pool: All-Female Group Show at Muratcentoventidue in Bari

The swimming pool as an existential metaphor, a domesticated sea celebrated in literature and cinema, is the theme of 'Swimming Pool', an all-female group exhibition at Muratcentoventidue in Bari. In its empty variant, the pool generates unease and can serve as a reparative wailing wall for crises and tensions (Sissa Micheli). A disused pool in a decaying Chinese hotel becomes the stage for a performance exploring the contradictions of a country in monumental ascent (Elena Knox). When filled with water, the pool introduces movement in Debora Vrizzi's rhythmic dives laden with mythological references, or in Liliana Orbach's abstract trajectories of swimmers seen from above, transformed into liquid kaleidoscopes. Jaye Rhee offers ironic mimicry with improbable turbans, echoing the shapes of polar bears and swans from the oleographic decorations of her pleasant pool.