Author(s) | Maria Svarbova

Publisher | New Heroes & Pioneers, 2023

Language(s) | English

Hardcover | 256 pages

ISBN-13 | 978-9198656626

Product Dimensions | 22.86 x 29.85 cm

Photography | Creatives duMonde

“When I look into my viewfinder, I see a parallel world. It’s an imaginary world that functions on a different time plane.” – Maria Svarbova, Swimming Pools, p.1

A more comprehensive continuation into her journey to document and recast the swimming pools of her native Slovakia (see Swimming Pool), in this second volume Maria Svarbova further welcomes viewers into a world of real people, places and things: surreal, alluring, re-configured. Her subjects are seemingly inanimate, yet very much alive; engaged in physical activity, yet still. With her camera, Svarbova affirms herself a master painter, architect and interrogator of local and global political history, civil rights and human agency.

TMG