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How many have you have jumped into a pool, or wading into the sea, and let your head lie right at the point of your face is half underwater and half above the line? There is a sensation of breathing the air above the water and having your body submerged. It’s like a superpower, a feeling of nature and human identity, a weight and weightlessness at the exact same moment. Elizabeth Glaessner has looked at waterlines for many years now. The characters feel both freed and stuck in an in-between: conscious and subconscious in the same instant. For her newest solo show, Now you’re a lake, opening at François Ghebaly in Los Angeles, being submerged in the strange and wonderful power of water,…