Publication presentation "Splashing Mies" Alberto Peral

The plunge signifies a transition that breaks the membrane between two worlds: that of the gaze prior to the jump, able to discern through the transparency of the air, and that of the body surrounded by the aqueous medium after submerging beneath the surface. In “A Bigger Splash,” Hockney captured that moment of excitement following the weightlessness of the jump. The change of medium entails a loss of breath, leaving as the only trace the fleeting presence of movement in the water.

The Pavilion, with its reflective effect, erects an abstract reality where the viewer confronts an unreachable reflection, a space where the gaze anticipates what the hands can touch when they meet the resistance of the polished surface. The flow of space escapes between the fingers, unable to grasp its own imaginary. The pillars, calligraphic in nature, suspend the space, fictionally liberated from the burdens they are meant to support.

In “Splashing Mies,” Alberto Peral intervenes in the only reflection capable of penetrating: the disturbance of the waters tears apart the constitutive fiction of Miesian reality itself.

On December 1, the day of the intervention’s closure, the publication featuring images and reflections will be presented.