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Tiril Hasselknippe, States of Flux: After the Splash, 'Balcony (ɫɤеɥеɬ 43 %)', (2016). Welded steel, polyester. Installation view. Courtesy the artist + Swimming Pool, Sofia.
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'States of Flux: The Sunniest Beach' (2016). Location view at Hotel Iberostar, Sunny Beach. Courtesy Swimming Pool.
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Dardan Zhegrova, States of Flux: The Token, 'Where we meet sometimes at night, bright bright, long talk in white' in Frankfurt, Waschsalon (2016). Various materials, TV-screen, video. Installation view. Courtesy the artist + Swimming Pool.
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Max Brand, States of Flux: After the Splash 'Untitled', (2016). Mixed media. Courtesy the artist + Swimming Pool, Sofia.
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'States of Flux: After the Splash', (2016). Installation view. Courtesy the artists + Swimming Pool, Sofia.
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Shana Moulton, States of Flux: The Sunniest Beach, 'Every Angel is an Angel', (2016). HD-Video Loop. Courtesy the artist + Swimming Pool.
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Luci Lippard, 'States of Flux: The Token'. Performance documentation in Frankfurt, Waschsalon. Courtesy the artist + Swimming Pool
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Anna Zacharoff, States of Flux: After the Splash, 'Beutidull Sham ....2', (2016). Ceramic pots, glue, golden leafs. Installation view. Courtesy the artist + Swimming Pool, Sofia.
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Jenny Knight, States of Flux: The Sunniest Beach, 'Head space Slick', (2016). Plastic, acrylic paint, nylon rope, copper wire and found tchotchkes. Installation view. Courtesy the artist + Swimming Pool.
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Tore Wallert, States of Flux: After the Splash, 'Walkers at the Swimming Pool', (2016). Installation view. Courtesy the artist + Swimming Pool, Sofia.
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Kalina Terzieva, States of Flux: The Sunniest Beach, Performance documentation in Hotel Iberostar (2016). Courtesy the artist + Swimming Pool.

An overflowing emptiness: Documenting Swimming Pool’s States of Flux

, 9 February 2017

The States of Flux  four-part exhibition hosted by Sofia’s Swimming Pool, ran from August 27 until October 16, 2016, where the press release asked you to:

Martin Kohout, States of Flux: After The Splash, ‘Wrong Step’, (2013). Inljet print on reflexive foil, dibond. Installation view. Courtesy the artist + Swimming Pool, Sofia.

Imagine an empty pool. Then imagine smashing everything into it – a totality that eventually overflows the centre, the periphery, the whole thing.

Curated by Viktoria Draganova and Gergana Todorova, the roaming show included work by Florian Auer, Max Brand, Sebastian Burger, Stanimir Genov, Tiril Hasselknippe, Martin Kohout, Hanne Lippard, Luci Lippard, Michele Di Menna, Shana Moulton, Pakui Hardware, Kalina Terzieva, Tore Wallert, Anna Zacharoff and Dardan Zhegrova.

The events took place at various locations in “semi-public places [that formed] the spine of an imaginary geography of flux”:

The Sunniest Beach was a weekend of interventions (from August 27 to 28, 2016) at a hotel in the tourist resort Sunny Beach on the Black Sea where “we face a capitalism of excess, manifested by booze and trinketization.” Flowing with money, bodies, things and thoughts, reality “wobbles in desire and exhaustion until it finds itself stifled in an odd surface.”

Luci Lippard, ‘States of Flux: The Token’ (2013). Performance documentation in Frankfurt, Waschsalon. Courtesy the artist + Swimming Pool, Sofia.

After the Splash on the rooftop of Sofia’s Swimming Pool (September 2 to October 16, 216) presented an exhibition both romantic and dystopian, “immersed in a world haunted by the unruly effects of repressed selves.”

The Sanguine was a walk through a forest and to a hot spring near Zheleznitsa (on September 3, 2016) in an attempt to share thoughts “of pleasure and relaxation.”

The Token was a one-day intervention (on October 6, 2016) that took place in a Frankfurt self-service laundromat that asked “with such fictions governing our reality, how can we claim our vulnerable presence?”

Texts by Ed FornielesViktoria Draganova and Rosa Aiello were published alongside on Swimming Pool’s webpage.**