Swimming Pool is a life-size pool divided into two spaces: the upper and exterior one, which generates the very convincing illusion of seeing people under the water (in fact, it’s only a thin layer of water put on a transparent pane); and the lower and interior one, in which people can enter. In this blue room where the reflections of the water are dancing, one feel he is in an unreal place, totally out of his daily experience. With Swimming Pool, the surprise and the understanding of the “trick” produce an optimistic consideration: we construct reality ourselves, we can never accept it as given.




