WET

Installation with Paula Hoffmann
2023
Site specific dimensions
Ultramarine tech fabric, steel, aluminium
The focus of our work is the moment before full immersion in water or complete exit from water as a metaphor for settling between two poles, for making ourselves at home in levitation. We disassemble a pool into the individual parts needed for this entre-deux: intact water surface, broken water surface and transit tool.
Artwork by Paula Hoffmann and Laura Mahnke, a steel pool ladder and a necklace.
WET Installation by Paula Hoffmann and Laura Mahnke
WET Installation by Paula Hoffmann and Laura Mahnke
WET Installation by Paula Hoffmann and Laura Mahnke
Dive into the blue water. Sink. The surface splits open over above your head and then melts back into one. To plunge. Into something. To take a leap. Head over heels. What happens when you just jump off and fly, and then – first with your fingertips, then your wrists, your arms, your head, your shoulders, your back, your butt, your legs, your ankles, your toes, break the surface tension, glide, fast, then slower, stopped by the mass of water, then arc upward and break the surface from below, with your head, your hair sticking to your face, then your shoulders, your chest. You wipe your hair out of your eyes, floating, and look around. What do you see?
WET Installation by Paula Hoffmann and Laura Mahnke
WET Installation by Paula Hoffmann and Laura Mahnke
WET Installation by Paula Hoffmann and Laura Mahnke

This is not about pools Or water Or sunbathing Or maybe it is because I’d prefer to sunbathe instead of working as hard as I can to receive a bare minimum of quality in my life We all should be able to sunbathe and dip our toes into the shallow water without fears and worries.

LM