Neither fully public nor fully private, the swimming pool is a place where bodies become visible—a site of leisure and performance, intimacy and observation. Public Pool brings together works by over twenty-five artists spanning painting, sculpture, photography, and performance, using water and aquatic environments to explore the body, memory, desire, and collective experience. At the height of summer, the boundaries between self and other, surface and depth, become momentarily fluid.
Featuring works by Emil Alzamora, Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, Hans Breder, Ethan Aloe, Stanley Casselman, Renée Cox, Thomas Deininger, Ron English, Fang Lijun, Nick Farhi, Carole Feuerman, Zhen Guo, Frank Hyder, Jeffrey Spencer Hargrave, Katinka Huang, Salomón Huerta, Sacha Ingber, Vitaly Komar, Li Daiyun, Liu Xiaohui, Joan Lebold Cohen, Paul McDowall, Donna Mikkelsen, Yigal Ozeri, Jim Peters, Shi Chong, Larry Sultan, Jeannie Weissglass, and Zhang Huan.