“Splashing Mies” by Alberto Peral

The artist takes us back to the image of the moment that Hockney captured in “A bigger splash” with an abstract and fixed architecture as a backdrop, diluted, in part, in the reflection of its glasses. The plunge implies a promise, the excitement that weightlessness gives and the suspension prior to the inevitable collision with the water. The change of medium takes place in an instant of loss of breath that leaves as the only trace of the fleeting presence the movement of the waters.

A similar phenomenon occurs in the Pavilion and the different surfaces and materials build with the reflections an airy, weightless, and ethereal architecture that is impossible to immobilize. The building becomes a trap for the architects themselves, whose flow of reflection slips through their hands, and Alberto Peral plays with it by connecting the liquid surfaces with each other.