Water is captivating. Living things are drawn to water and they often settle where there is access to water, water gives life and is vital for survival. Water can be both life-giving and devastating.
PoolWorld is based on an imagined reality where fictitious dolphins run a water theme park where shows are arranged of people moving in water. Silhouettes, facial expressions and situations from human life are reproduced in the exhibition in the form of hundreds of ceramic sculptures shaped from the perspective of the fictional dolphins. Humans seems to enjoy and be drawn to water, but they do not belong in the water, in PoolWorld humans are set in a world that is not adapted for their life form.
Johan Lundin’s PoolWorld is an installation with aesthetic influences from environments found in human water parks and environments with plastic vegetation. The installation includes a video work that gives visitors the opportunity to interact with the exhibition.
About Johan Lundin
Johan Lundin works with performance and installations and has previously staged, among other things, several different fictitious travel agencies, an inverted zoo and a spa. The fictional and constructed is constantly present in Johan Lundin’s work, as well as comparisons between different types of everyday roles.
PoolWorld has emerged as part of the performance piece Human World that Johan Lundin has been performing since 2021. Human World is an inverted zoo. The fictional animals that run the zoo study people, feed and try to interact with the people. Johan Lundin often uses humor to investigate and find hidden structures or movement and activity patterns in public environments and everyday situations. By reversing perspectives or roles such as between human and animal, human behaviour can be made visible as both grotesque and cute at the same time.
Human World has been shown at Platform in Vasa, Finland 2021, Telemark Kunstsenter in Skien, Norway 2022, Malmö Kostmuseer, Malmö 2022, Scaniabadet in Malmö 2022, Augustenborgs torg in Malmö 2023 and Botulfsplatsen in Lund 2024.