Melting Point by the Japanese artist Aya Momose invites you to take part in a seemingly simple act: drinking a glass of water. But the water is warmed in real time to the body temperature of the artist, who at that moment is in Tokyo. As a visitor, you drink some of this water yourself.
The exhibition space at DE SINGEL takes the form of a bar, where performers calibrate the temperature precisely to live data from Momose’s body. What follows is an intimate, faintly uncomfortable experience: drinking lukewarm water that suggests physical proximity to a body that is not there.
Melting Point examines how we experience the boundary between ourselves and others. Through something as ordinary as temperature, Momose makes tangible the way technology, body, and imagination interlock, and how closeness can also give rise to estrangement