Presented at Art Basel Hong Kong 2023’s ‘Encounters’ section is Nabuqi’s Fountain: Night Garden (2020). The work is a large-scale fountain appropriates and reconstructs the image of the fountain—water pumps, tarps, steel frames, advertising banners—emphasising the restrained, anti-monumental nature of the cascade, transforming a majestic symbol of authority into a set of complex material relations.
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Nabuqi, Fountain: Night , 2020
Stainless steel, PVC cloth, water spray device, dust screen, fibreglass, print on cloth, LED lights, ropes
Dimensions variable

Nabuqi, Fountain: Night , 2020
Stainless steel, PVC cloth, water spray device, dust screen, fibreglass, print on cloth, LED lights, ropes
Dimensions variable

Nabuqi, Fountain: Night , 2020
Stainless steel, PVC cloth, water spray device, dust screen, fibreglass, print on cloth, LED lights, ropes
Dimensions variable