Fountain II, 2023
(performance / installation)
(performance / installation)
Duration: 4 days, 7 hours per day
Location: Pace Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Fountain II is a durational work for two performers. Two figures stand in an embrace on a white plinth over a pool of blood-red liquid. The performers' chests and hands appear to be hemorrhaging, continuously tracing rivulets down the surface of the body, the sides of the plinth, and into the pool below. While Fountain I (2022) was a poetic action to make visible what the artist describes as an evocation of the “final stages of heartbreak—when one finally turns one’s entire body inside out to reach a sort of ecstasy,” Fountain II is its second act; a duet. The performance was paired with the first posthumous solo exhibition of Hermann Nitsch.
Curated by Mark Beasley
Images courtesy of Pace Gallery
Location: Pace Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Fountain II is a durational work for two performers. Two figures stand in an embrace on a white plinth over a pool of blood-red liquid. The performers' chests and hands appear to be hemorrhaging, continuously tracing rivulets down the surface of the body, the sides of the plinth, and into the pool below. While Fountain I (2022) was a poetic action to make visible what the artist describes as an evocation of the “final stages of heartbreak—when one finally turns one’s entire body inside out to reach a sort of ecstasy,” Fountain II is its second act; a duet. The performance was paired with the first posthumous solo exhibition of Hermann Nitsch.
Curated by Mark Beasley
Images courtesy of Pace Gallery