Collaboration with Daniel Elkayam

The stride against the passing of time and its one-directionality is central to many cultures, philosophies, and religions. The difficulty in accepting the limitations of finite existence has spawned mythologies and myths such as the Fountain of Youth, whose waters were believed to restore health to the sick and youthfulness to the elderly. The obsessive preoccupation with the consciousness of time is not unique only to history, but has many forms even today, perhaps because it is one of the few domains uncontrollable by mankind.

Born from a shared interest in working with organic materials and accelerating natural processes, this work examines the effects of time on materials and their temporality. The Fountain of Aging is a living installation, a seven-day choreography of encounters between materials and their visual effects on one another. The objects are artificially triggered by acceleration methods to create a dynamic display of real-time material transformation, sanctifying the effect of time instead of resisting it.