Title: Slipping Away Artist Name: Pascal Hachem and Philéo Landowski
Materials: PVC tubes and metal structures.
Dimensions: 200w x 200d X 300 to 700h
Art Program 2026 - Fortezza da Basso, Florence.
For the upcoming edition, Philéo Landowski joins forces with Lebanese artist Pascal Hachem to create the fair’s central installation at the Fortezza. Moving beyond a literal interpretation of this edition’s theme, the project transforms the hidden technical systems of a pool into a monumental construction site. Oversized pipes, magnified to a bold theatrical statement, expose the industrial reality behind leisure, inviting visitors to reflect on the unseen labor and systems supporting spectacle.
The installation captures a frozen moment: a pool of blue and empty tubes forming a solid yet fluid volume, defying gravity and expectation. Its surface exists in a precarious balance, neither still nor chaotic, leaning toward disruption yet never surrendering to it. Between silence and turbulence, the work embodies a cycle of quiet transformation, where rigid lines soften and structure dissolves into fluid cuts.
Here, we are "Slipping Away"—not in water, but in the tension of what is almost touched, where absence feels like presence. It is a convergence of tactile reality and perception, leaving only the trace of a reflection, half-seen and half-felt.
