HARD WATER SOFT PIPES

2026

Solo exhibition at Møstings, Frederiksberg, Denmark. Exhibition period: 10. January – 15. March 2026

Through our buildings, landscapes and bodies, water flows in continuous currents, a fundamental condition for all living things and life as we know it on Earth. In HARD WATER SOFT PIPES, Hannah Toticki grapples with water as an entity that both sustains and is threatened by the way we live. The exhibition is rooted in the stories about the Naiads, freshwater nymphs from Greek mythology. Dwelling in springs, rivers, and lakes, the Naiads received offerings such as locks of hair, as the continuous growth of hair was associated with fertility, water, and plant life, particularly grass. At Møstings, Toticki brings the myth into the present as she stages herself as a Naiad of modern society, a goddess of the kitchen sink, surrounded by the new waterways that deliver us water. She exposes the infrastructure of water, usually hidden behind walls and beneath cupboards, that supplies our daily lives as if from an inexhaustible source. – Curator Frederik Rørmann Saxton

Photos by David Stjernholm