Aquaphilia: Love of Water

All living creatures on earth have an innate connection to water, in fact, we cannot survive without water. This deep affiliation to water heightens our sensory experiences and attachment to place, where beautiful landscapes along waterways gets settled by humans since ancient times. In the exhibition ‘Aquaphilia’, five contributors from a multidisciplinary background of architecture, landscape architecture, sculpture and fine arts – submerge themselves into the depths of their practice to produce works reflective of a 'Love of Water’. The collection of contemporary visual and interactive artworks underpinned by the adoration for hydration, raises questions of social and environmental consciousness. This book 'Aquaphilia - Love of Water' provides in essays and details of the collections of works by the artists that cares deeply for the environment. As lead author, Roös describes and presents in words, drawings and paintings his expression of feelings, experiences and interpretations of the various natural environments that he immersed myself into - environments connected to water, the stories of 'Hydro-Philos'.