“In the meantime, something about water” leads us into a world of symbols. On display are photographs of soap bubbles—fragile, iridescent structures. Their water was collected from the melting Pasterze glacier at the foot of the Großglockner mountain. Soap bubbles, consisting of water and air, held together by a thin film of soap, reveal an unstable equilibrium that exists only for a brief moment. In this transience, water becomes visible as a vital but dwindling resource. The vulnerability of the ecological system is reflected. Close-up photographs of this photographic work enlarge the fragile structures and capture a moment that bursts in the next instant. They serve as symbols of the fragility of natural cycles and refer to the close interconnection between nature, resources, and human intervention.

In contrast, the exhibition displays a concrete object: Tyrolean spring water, frozen into ice cubes and packaged in a plastic bag—transformed from a freely accessible natural resource into a commodity. The originally circulating element is isolated, portioned, labeled, and transferred into a linear logic of commercial consumption. The plastic bag becomes the shell of a paradoxical state: purity and originality meet packaging, transport, and waste.

Between poetic transience and material condensation, the exhibition addresses the waste of resources and the economization of what is naturally taken for granted. Water no longer appears as a natural cycle, but as a commodity—essential to life, but dwindling, and therefore subject to a (rising) price. Soon no longer affordable for everyone?
“In the meantime, something about water” invites us to critically question the transformation from common good to consumer good – before the balance melts away or bursts like a soap bubble.