The exhibition’s selection of works, ranging from sculpture and poetry to installation and architectural gestures, makes it a place to listen and interact, a space where water is not just shown, but expresses itself—with its voice, its physical presence, its ability to change environments and meanings. — Francesco Stocchi, Artistic Director Fondazione MAXXI

 

Something in the Water—a group exhibition at MAXXI in Rome—brings together the work of Lita Albuquerque, Saif Azzuz, Matthew Barney, Christo, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Torkwase Dyson, Leslie Hewitt, Nancy Holt, Pavlo Makov, Virginia Overton, Marjetica Potrč, Ugo Rondinone, Peter Sandbichler, Anna Sew Hoy, and Oscar Tuazon, fifteen artists who engage with water as a living material and an artistic medium.

Curated by Tuazon, the exhibition forms a new chapter of the artist’s Water School, an ongoing project that adapts the structural and social language of architecture to facilitate communal assembly, dialogue, and actions.

 

[With] works that engage with water as a material, as part of the artistic process, there’s also a sense that the artist is not the sole arbiter of the meaning of the work. There’s an aspect of relinquishing control over the process and the product to this other consciousness, thinking about water as a consciousness. — Oscar Tuazon

 

See info and link below for details.

 

 

SOMETHING IN THE WATER

Curated by Oscar Tuazon

Associate curator Elena Motisi

Through August 17

MAXXI

Via Guido Reni, 4A, Rome

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Quotes by Francesco Stocchi and Oscar Tuazon from the forthcoming exhibition catalogue Something in the Water (DoPe Press and MAXXI, 2025).

 

 

Something in the Water, curated by Oscar Tuazon, associate curator Elena Motisi, MAXXI, Rome, April 18–August 17, 2025.

Artwork by (from top): Virginia Overton; Leslie Hewitt (left) and Nancy Holt; Oscar Tuazon (foreground) and (left to right, background) Overton, Torkwase Dyson, Ugo Rondinone, and Saif Azzuz; Lita Albuquerque; Abraham Cruzvillegas (foreground) and (left to right, background) Pavlo Makov, Tuazon, and Christo; Hewitt; Azzuz (left) and Tuazon.

Photos © Musacchio, Pasqualini, and Fucilla (1, 2, 6) and © Luis Do Rosario (3, 4, 5, 7). Courtesy Fondazione MAXXI.