"Fontaine" (Fountain) examines the ancient ritual of throwing coins into water, a gesture of belief, secret wishes, and projecting into the future. Here, coins tossed onto a plastic bag on the ground subvert this practice to reveal its performative and symbolic dimensions.

The public is invited to participate, transforming the artwork into a space of shared ritual, where the accumulated sum becomes a tangible trace of an ephemeral community. Through an arbitrary calculation, the financial value of the work is increased fivefold its content, questioning notions of real, symbolic, and speculative value in art.

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"Fontaine" thus explores the connections between belief, economy, and participation, transforming a simple object into a vector of collective projection and aesthetic mutation.

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