Fountain of youth by Cristobal Cea

3D Animation on 24 Inch and 7 inch Monitors, LED Sign, Stands and Monopod.

http://www.cristobalcea.com/#/fuente-de-juventud-2018/

From Cea’s site:

“In the middle of a small park in the Metropolitan University of Educational Sciences, on top of an impressive looking plinth, stands a pseudo-classical sculpture of what seems to have been (a long time ago), a generic reclining female figure. The sculpture itself is rather unimpressive: Cast out of concrete, the mold making process seems rudimentary, and the features rather dull. But the sculpture is an active symbol: Constantly painted, vandalized, written over; The face gone a long time ago, probably taken by the students of UMCE, and in its place scarves, cigarette butts and plastic bags… All of this, a conflation of gestures that are simultaneously an act of violence against the object, and an affirmation of this character as one of their own: A student, protesting, with the face covered, and covered with messages.The video installation is a computer model of this sculpture, now transformed into a fountain with water emanating from the head, as an ideal representation of the state of perpetual vigilance that it has come to symbolize, as an autonomous version of a generic classical sculpture, which in turn represents certain notions of democracy and republican order that seem to be insufficient nowadays. “

thanks to Paz & Felipe for the link!