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For its eighth season, Mister Fahrenheit is very pleased to present Pooler Room, a solo exhibition by Jill Magid. Bringing together installation, text, painting, and performance, Magid uses Mister Fahrenheit as her stage to trace power structures, intimately probing relations between individuals and the federal institutions designed to protect them.
Pooler Room unfolds across a space that once housed a subterranean swimming pool belonging to former resident and Vietnam War Marine veteran, Robert (“Bobby”) Muller (b. 1946). After sustaining a spinal injury during the War that left him paralyzed from the chest down, Muller became an outspoken peace activist and advocate of veterans’ rights.
The artist overlays another site where water, recovery, and state power intersect: the White House. In 1933, an indoor therapy pool was built in the West Wing for President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who took up swimming following his diagnosis with polio. Later, this pool was forced underground when the…
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For its eighth season, Mister Fahrenheit is very pleased to present Pooler Room, a solo exhibition by Jill Magid. Bringing together installation, text, painting, and performance, Magid uses Mister Fahrenheit as her stage to trace power structures, intimately probing relations between individuals and the federal institutions designed to protect them.
Pooler Room unfolds across a space that once housed a subterranean swimming pool belonging to former resident and Vietnam War Marine veteran, Robert (“Bobby”) Muller (b. 1946). After sustaining a spinal injury during the War that left him paralyzed from the chest down, Muller became an outspoken peace activist and advocate of veterans’ rights.
The artist overlays another site where water, recovery, and state power intersect: the White House. In 1933, an indoor therapy pool was built in the West Wing for President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who took up swimming following his diagnosis with polio. Later, this pool was forced underground when the…
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