Fountain of Youth
Debbie Young
Fountain of Youth
Debbie Young
Reference
SAS0064_001
Year
2016
Dimensions (cm)
Height: 200
Length: 200
Depth: 25
Length: 200
Depth: 25
Materials
Wood, Ceramic, Mixed Media
Current Location
Glasgow
Suitable Locations for the Work
- Indoors
- Floor-based
- Wall-mounted
About the Artwork
The work mainly focused on the new Post-digital age mentality as well as humanity's anxiety and disenchantment with the direction we are headed towards both socially and politically.
Background, history, commissioner of the work
Part of 'Renaissance of the Decadents' Graduation exhibition in The Hague (NL) in 2016 and Galerie SANAA Utrecht 2016.
Thematic/contextual information
It was one of many pieces included within a room installation, a room which resembled an abandoned, dilapidated building. The concept was based on anthropology, the cyclical nature of time, the ephemeral nature of human existence and decay. In the painting, there are several, absurdly simplistic looking, figures, illustrating how small we are comparatively to the universe. There are three oil painted faces imbedded in the landscape, which represent the cycle of life and death, becoming the earth and decaying in the ground.
