Champagne Pool

2019

BOOK / PHOTOGRAPHS / INSTALLATION / VIDEO

59123; that is the number of images you get if you type in: ‘Champagne Pool’ in the Google search bar. The Champagne Pool is located in Wai-O-Tapu, a thermal park in New Zealand. The colours that this thermal landscape shows are so unrealistic that it can be doubted whether the photo represents reality. 

The abundance of images ensures that the Champagne Pool has lost its significance. This project reflects on the mass media by making reproductions of one image from the Champagne Pool. It’s not about what is on the photograph, but what is done with it, it became an object. The result of this experiment is bundled in a book that refers back to the digital world where all images can be downloaded, edited and uploaded again.