WATER AS A SITE OF TRANSFORMATION
An interdisciplinary curatorial project, inviting sensory encounters with water to rethink human-nature relationships.
CURATORIAL CONCEPT
In response to the escalating water crisis and the urgent need to rethink how we relate to water and to ourselves, Water as a Site of Transformation is an interdisciplinary exhibition that reframes water beyond its reduction to an economic resource. The project proposes water as a living condition—both the material we are composed of and the planetary medium in which life unfolds. Departing from the ancient concept of the microcosm and macrocosm, the exhibition brings together artworks that examine the human body as a watery entity and water as a planetary, living system. Moving between bodily intimacy and ecological scale, the works foreground water as an ontological and epistemological agent rather than a passive substance. Positioning art as a site of experiential knowledge, the exhibition invites viewers to inhabit alternative modes of perception that challenge the entrenched culture–nature divide. In doing so, Water as a Site of Transformation seeks to contribute to the emergence of new cultural narratives—ones grounded in relationality, interdependence, and the possibility of regenerative futures.
CURATOR:
Iva Buzhashka (ES/BG)
ARTISTS:
TARAH RHODA (USA)
Leaking Liquid Lattice, 2019
Tear Crystal (Drop), 2019
C-LAB (UK)
Dr Howard Boland and Dr Laura Cinti
The Phenomenon (The Living Mirror), 2026
VØLTIKΔ (ES/COL) y MARIA PEREDO (ES/BOL)
The Consciousness of Water, 2026 (performance)
THANKS:
Aleksandra Istorik, Gallery Istorik, Valencia, Spain
Dr Rosa Montes Estellés and Dr Miguel García Ferrús from CAMA (Applied Microbiology Advanced Research Centre at the Universitat Politècnica de València).
March, 2026 I Valencia, Spain
Film about
the project
Water as a Site of Transformation
by VØLTIKΔ Films
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