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Big Bang Fountain, 2014 - Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris – 2014 - Photo: Iwan Baan
Big Bang Fountain, 2014 - Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris 2014 - Photo: Iwan Baan
Big Bang Fountain, 2014 - Moderna Museet, Stockholm 2015 - Photo: Anders Sune Berg
Big Bang Fountain, 2014 - Moderna Museet, Stockholm 2015 - Photo: Anders Sune Berg
Sketch for Big Bang Fountain, 2014
Big Bang Fountain, 2014 - Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, 2017 - Photo: Sébastien Roy
Big Bang Fountain, 2014 - Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, 2017 - Photo: Sébastien Roy
Big Bang Fountain, 2014 - Tate Modern, London – 2019 - Photo: Anders Sune Berg
Big Bang Fountain, 2014 - Tate Modern, London – 2019 - Photo: Anders Sune Berg
Big Bang Fountain, 2014 - Tate Modern, London – 2019 - Photo: Anders Sune Berg
Big Bang Fountain, 2014 - Tate Modern, London – 2019 - Photo: Anders Sune Berg
Big Bang Fountain, 2014 - Tate Modern, London – 2019 - Photo: Anders Sune Berg
Big Bang Fountain, 2014 - Tate Modern, London – 2019 - Photo: Anders Sune Berg
Big Bang Fountain, 2014 - Guggenheim Museum Bilbao – 2020 - Photo: Erika Ede
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Water, dyed blue and illuminated by a strobe light, is pumped up before the viewer in quick bursts. The strobe light catches the bursts at the apex of their trajectory, freezing them in the frenzied and globular form they take at the instant before they are pulled down by gravity. Rather than experiencing the entire arc of the water, viewers can only glimpse the final moment of each burst’s upward motion, a mesmerising series of abstract forms. The fountain is housed within a black, circular room, to create a completely dark space against which the contrast of the strobe-lit water is made even more striking.