Le metafore dell’acqua

Among the natural elements, water is the one that most represents the idea of circularity, transformation, regeneration. This is the reason why it is full of meanings linked to life and death. Nowadays, water is associated on the one hand with the exhaustion of resources, as a precious and no longer unlimited necessity, on the other with the vulnerability and fragility of our planet, as an element capable of causing destruction following ongoing climate change. At the same time, water is a resource to be protected and a danger to be protected from. The installation of the Danish Pavilion at the 17. International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, entitled Con-nect-ed-ness, takes on these aspects and condenses them into the theme of “circularity” staged through water, the perception of its static and dynamic forms and its sound. The message that the curator and designers intend to instill is that of the “inter-connection” in space and time between human actions, of their reciprocity and interdependence. And the water that flows, evaporates, percolates, gushes and that the visitors drink inside the pavilion is the perfect metaphor.