Residency and Exhibition: Swimming Pool Blue at Achterhaus Hamburg, Germany Dates: August 14 to October 31, 2016 Project Description: Designating the residency apartment as exhibition space and primary source for material, Swimming Pool Blue explored conditions of artist residency deemed inessential — its accumulation of objects and furniture, its spatial histories, and its associated anxieties, such as loneliness, distraction and language incompetence. Working with an abundance of mirrors left in the residency, Durey scraped the paint off their backs, dissolving their silver layer with laundry bleach.
Images: Lucien Durey, Swimming Pool Blue (2016), window shade, dental floss Installation view of Swimming Pool Blue, 2016 Lucien Durey, Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing (2016), mirror Lucien Durey, Do Nothing! (2016), mirror Lucien Durey, Be a Long Play (2016), mirror, objects, paint Performance as part of Swimming Pool Blue, 2016 Other credits: Photo documentation by Sarah Hildebrand
