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“The Fountain” is inspired by a dream I had shortly after moving to the U.S., which I later brought to life as a video work during a residency at I-Park Foundation in Connecticut. At the heart of the piece is a tree, serving as a metaphor for a state of uprootedness. A crane hoists a pine tree from beneath the water and lifts it toward the sky—an evocative gesture that mirrors the human journey from birth to the beyond.
By Tami Katz Frieman, Curator: In The Fountain, a crane uproots an old pine tree from a pastoral lake and slowly carries it up in the air. The tree constitutes a Romantic metaphor for a state of being uprooted and of migration, detachment and homelessness. The work alludes to Marcel Duchamp’s renowned Fountain, 1917, a work similarly centered on a decontextualized object with a new significance in an artistic context.
