German artists Elmgreen and Dragset have installed a sculpture that looks like an U-shaped swimming pool outside the Miami Beach Convention Center.

Unveiled as part of this year's Miami design week events, the 20-foot-high (six-metre-high) Bent Pool comprises a matte-white lacquered rim that resembles a pool's edge and a turquoise interior meant to convey the basin.
With Miami and Miami Beach among a number of coastal cities threatened by rising sea levels caused by the climate crisis and already prone to flooding, Elmgreen and Dragset created the surreal sculpture to raise awareness about the region's changing landscape in the face of the climate crisis.

"Miami Beach is an area that has seen a rise in extreme weather and flooding; its landscape is in flux," Elmgreen and Dragset said. "Bent Pool encourages us to think about how we normally interact with our surroundings: how accessible or inaccessible they appear."
Other elements that aid a realistic appearance, despite the warped shape, are circular lights that glow at night, a stainless steel ladder and a turquoise diving board.

"Identified by details such as its ladder, its diving board and pool lamps, the abstracted object can easily be recognised as a swimming pool even though its bowed shape prevents it from carrying water," the studio added.
Curved pieces of aluminium were used to create the unusual structure, with the two ends resting atop a concrete plinth. "Bent Pool is shaped...