Loop Pool is a visual poem responding to the circular architecture of the Lingotto building, imagining it as a body of water in perpetual orbital motion. The title is a wordplay and, more specifically a semordnilap, a reversed spelling of the word ‘palindromes’, meaning that a word, or a sentence, can gain a different meaning when read in reverse.

The entire poem is a text that simultaneously contains two different reading modes: the words change meaning depending on the direction in which one walks. The letters echo the aesthetics of road marking and lettering, generally used as a standard system to convey direction, lanes and speed by regulating human movement on roads. The scale and interweaving of the two texts, marked in white and yellow, stimulate an alternative approach to the act of reading, disrupting its fluency and automatisms. By extending and slowing down time and speech, Loop Pool originates a ‘broken English’, that is, a non-standard version of the English language, which makes its syntax falter. The focus of the text is placed on the friction between the body and its verbal utterances. Challenging the hegemony of the idea of language fluency as a logocentric mastery of oneself, the work seeks in disfluency a transformative practice towards a collective loss of boundaries.