In the Netherlands, we often frame water as something we control. In reality, we depend on a continuous, invisible system of intervention to keep the country dry. SYNC brings that dependency to the surface. Water circulates through a closed system, driven by mechanisms that never stop, mirroring the pumps and infrastructure that quietly sustain our landscape. Rather than offering answers, the work creates space to question what it means to rely on a system that can never stop.

Waterpumps and control systems which normally function as hidden operators are now highlighted as the main experience. Water technology is not something that passively exists in the background but actively organizes society. Just as how roads, rivers and digital pathways shape our everyday behaviour.

SYNC is an autonomous installation where the audience can walk around and see for themselves how SYNC uses the Archimedean screws to continuously pump water around. It pumps this water to find a balance, which it seemingly can never reach.

This tension is fundamentally Dutch. Since the 17th century, technologies such as the Archimedean screw have enabled the development of land that would otherwise not exist. At the same time, this has created a deep and ongoing dependency. SYNC frames this as a locked-in infrastructural process.