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An Alien Installation Hides within These Slick, Watery Craters

Londoner Samara Scott makes a triumphant return from 2015’s Freize with an aqueous, multi-media installation.
Samara Scott's outdoor installation Developer in Battersea Park in London. All images courtesy Pump House Gallery. Photo: Eoin Carey

Marrying industrial elements and the appeal of an outdoor art show, Samara Scott’s “liquid painting” is a glossy modernist display contained in a multicolored swimming pool. The installation, Developer, incorporates sculptural elements to disrupt the naturally calm surface of the waters with texture and dimension, changing with “time and the natural environment," as the exhibit description puts it and currently occupies a garden inside London's Battersea Park.

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As a complete tableau, the site-specific installation transforms and changes its appearance depending on the activity of the water throughout a pipe system. Scott, a London-based, multimedia artist, uses biodegradable dyes to change the tone of each mirror pool's waters. Her process is described as harnessing the chemical elements of her work to bring across industrialist concepts, while juxtaposing the mystery hiding underneath the water with the greater flora of the park.

During last year’s Frieze London, Scott was an exciting new prospect, debuting a series of amalgamous pools filled with household liquids and buckets of glitter. Scott spoke to The Guardianbefore the 2015 fair, describing herself as easily “tricked by shiny things.”

“It’s half about being disturbed by that, but also being… a user of this stuff,” she shared of her Freize piece, Lonely Planet II. “I’m attracted to it and I can’t stop myself—and I find that perverted.” Check out more snapshots of Developer below:

Organized by Pump House Gallery in London, Developer shows from August 4 – September 25, 2016 at the Pleasure Garden Fountains in Battsersea Park. Find more information on the installation, as well as Pump House, here.

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