During a trip to Portugal with one of her E.N.S students, GRATALOUP goes diving with her, to cool off, in the hotel pool. Because of the heat, the water was completely green…

This is how the series of Swimming Pools will be born, a theme that the artist will take up many times during his life, through various versions.

To achieve this, GRATALOUP revisited frottages of water movements created in 1978 and added human figures to them.

"Swimming pools have always fascinated me. They are a victory of man; that of having brought into a landscape, a plot of sea, lake, pond,
of river."