In the early 1970s in Argentina, the invention of a low-cost dismountable tarpaulin swimming pool, known as „la Pelopincho“, revolutionised the summer for those who could not afford to go on holiday. Installed on patios, terraces, gardens and even balconies, the Pelopincho is still an iconic part of the country’s urban landscape.

In Patio Pileta – Innenhofpool (‘Courtyard Pool’) a performer traces the history of this object, travelling back to her childhood in the 1990s in a suburb of Buenos Aires and arriving at the present of her current life in Berlin. What happens to her when she evokes those summer days by the pool in the courtyard of her home? What remnants of her childhood continue to shape her today? How can nostalgia become an act of the present?

Patio Pileta – Innenhofpool explores, with sensitivity and humour, the contradictions of a voluntary migration in its different stages, and gives way to the multiple meanings that an object can contain throughout our lives.

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Production Vöcks de Schwindt
Performance Gabriela Turano
Text Gabriela Turano & Federico Vöcks de Schwindt
Costume Lena Loy
Space & lighting design Wenzel Vöcks de Schwindt
Music Ignacio Villa
With an appearance by Ailin Formia.