WHAT WATER WILL
Image: Jota Mombaça, in the tired watering, 2022. Documentation of performance at the future site of the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo on the island of San Giacomo. Photo by Irene Fanizza. Courtesy the artist.
Although no amount of words can articulate that properly,
water will, in its undoing,
Hide some words and codes and sounds in its inconstancy.
Water will always contain,
the undone qualities
of the sunken,
their diluted memory. Water will.
Jota Mombaça
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