The Pool

I met Annalise for lunch today and went for lunch in the NGV cafe and then to see the exhibition The Pool.
I couldn't quite imagine what it was to be but we thoroughly enjoyed it 
The Pool is an architecture exhibition that represents the connection between landscape, culture and architecture as observed through the frame of a singular architectural and landscape typology – the swimming pool.

this is just inside the window from the Atrium

It was an entry in the 2016 Australian exhibition at the prestigious Venice Architecture Biennale.
It brought back memories of visits to the Horsham Pool when we were kids as well as following the campaign to re open the North Melbourne Pool.
There was a pool that you could get in! as well as great slide shows with pieces written by various people . 

The exhibition also explores important pools of Australia through a series of ‘lanes’, a playful reference to the eight competition lanes that make up the standard Olympic pool, eight public personas, tell their stories of architecture and culture:

– Giving of Life (Tim Flannery)
– Bodies of Water (Ian Thorpe)
– Childhood Memories (Romance Was Born)
– Other Worlds (Christos Tsiolkas)
– Public Dreaming (Anna Funder)
– Contested Space (Hetti Perkins)
– Theatre of Competition (Shane Gould)
– Deeper Water (Paul Kelly) This reminded me of his great song 

Depper water

The audio visual room and 'change room seating" and typical pool chairs.
There was  series of films in slight slo-mo of different pools Private, bushland, ocean edge etc 
The stories on the slide presentation screen was really interesting so I bought the catalogue
Well worth a (free) visit