Paula Meyer-Clason

A body of water – something typically found in nature – contained within an artificial, enclosed structure in an urban setting. Access requires permission in the form of a membership or ticket. Once inside, the visitor must undergo a ritual of purification. Showering before entering the water, a symbolic cleansing process,a transition from ordinary space to the heterotopic realm.


The Indoor Swimmingpool

This project examines the indoor swimming pool through the framework of Michel Foucault’s theory of heterotopian spaces, using photography as its medium. The images portray the pool as a site both familiar and estranged—an everyday environment that, when viewed out of its usual context, reveals itself as an uncanny and unlikely space.


2025
Editorial module, Zurich University of the Arts
220 x 300 mm    
Guidance by Christian Lange and Teo Schifferli
           
Photographs taken at the Hallenbad Zurich City

To be printed