Point

The exhibition opens on July 10th, 19:00 - 22:00 SPLASHHH is nothing more than an exhibition that reclaims space and transforms it into a transitional territory, offered on a silver platter to Summer. What arches does it connect, between what statuses does the transition happen, where does it take us, and where is the meeting point? We may just as well choose not to ask. Treated equally as a box of memories, moods, footnotes, souvenirs, nostalgia, and fleeting revelations, but also as an archive of artistic interpretations and thematic exercises, SPLASHHH evokes the rituals, freedoms, and absurdities of summer — as a site of universal desire, of natural-staged spectacle, of temporary utopia. At its core, SPLASHHH is a recreational inquiry into what the warm and perishable weather represents beyond seasonality — the performativity of beach objects, the politics of bodies displayed and gazed at, the anxiety of days counting and everything eventually fading, the weirdness of the summer personality developing and self-destructing, and the playlists looping to the edge of unbearable. The beach — both site and symbol: a zone of pleasures, of escapes, of metamorphoses, but also of cultural fictions. The beach, the theatre of leisure par excellence, suspended between the natural and the spectacular. Each object, each body becomes a floating signifier in a language of idleness. Is this spectacle not tender? A collective regression driven by play, by infantilism, inactivity, insatiability, boredom, and lazy splashing. What remains when summer ends? Its sticky, mythical legend. We remember — or think we remember — a happiness which may never have occurred. This is the true fiction of summer, questioning not whether it happened, but whether it was ever, in fact, natural.