The Pool NGV
The Pool NGV
A multi-sensory installation at the National Gallery of Victoria explored the social and cultural significance of ‘the pool’ as a quintessential Australian public space.
Location
Wurundjeri Woi-Wurrung Country National Gallery of Victoria, VIC
Client
Australian Institute of Architects
Completion
2016
Collaborators
Left Bank Co NGV
Following the success of The Pool at the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale, the project was commissioned as a reconfigured and extended version by the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne for their Design Studio at Federation Square.
The elements of the Venice exhibition were reconfigured for this new urban setting which opens directly to the street and Ian Potter Centre Atrium. Additional films commissioned as an extension of the original exhibition with members of the public again invited to engage with the water within the space.
"'The Pool’ is a fresh and joyful exhibition that extends the practice and thinking of architecture, offering a celebratory and accessible conversation about the ways in which pools as places affect us both socially and culturally."
NGV, The Pool
Team
Credits
Photography
Alexander Mayes