Amid an unrelenting war, a Ukrainian artist and his curators escaped to unveil a symbol of resilience to the world at the Venice Biennale
Updated 22nd April 2022
Over the years,"Fountain of Exhaustion" took many forms, from sketches and prints to technical drawings and physical installations. The version planned for Venice was to be the first fully functioning fountain, with the 78 funnels mounted in such a way that the initial stream of water divides again and again as it makes its way down the triangular arrangement, its flow weakening until it reaches the bottom.
Pavlo Makov by a version of the 'Fountain of Exhaustion' mounted on the Oleh Mitasov's house in Kharkiv There she waited for Makov, who was working on his own evacuation plan. He had been in Kharkiv when the war began, gathering his family in his apartment for the first two days.
"Ukrainian art has been overshadowed for a very long time by Russia," said German, holding her baby close to her chest."The cultural field has to be a battlefield as well, and we have to fight."
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