You won’t find traces of it on the islands, but New York artist Ernesto Pujol’s The Water Cycle is a series of mute ritualistic pilgrimages to the islands that he performs dressed as a white-garbed 19th-century sailor and with his face painted white. The public is invited to join him for the last two, on August 25 and September 22. He begins each perambulation inside the ICA, where he collects an empty glass water bottle and walks barefoot to the ferry, rides out to an island for a meditative stroll, fills his jug with seawater, and then returns it to the museum.
Pujol aims to speak about the sea’s power and how water is a crucial ingredient for life. I’ve missed his performances (descriptions on his blog make them sound like new-agey tedium), but I can say that his set-up in an ICA gallery isn’t much to look at — five water bottles vaguely shaped like the islands, a little metal table vaguely resembling a barrel, and a triptych of photos of Pujol seen from behind, dressed in sailor garb standing barefoot on the waterside rocks behind the ICA.
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