The Fountain of the Amazons (2022) is a sculpture that presents a vision of an exclusively female future world achieved through contraceptives. The endocrine disruptors in birth control pills trigger bodies to produce high levels of estrogen and progesterone preventing ovulation. When they leave the body through urine, they continue to work causing significant increases in female fish populations and possibly affecting humans too. Through its references and forms, the sculpture echoes real life issues of pharmaceutical pollution, but also historical ideas of a matriarchal world.

This work was originally commissioned by GLUON with the support of the European STARTS programme, Pollet Water Group, Pharma.be, Inopsys, VITO Vlakwa, Surplace & Capture-UGent.