Curse Carrier / 2025 / Fuchs and Westh-Hansen
In the center of the exhibition stands a fountain of wet clay: a shifting, formless body from which water seeps and drips, pooling onto the floor. This work takes its inspiration from the ancient fountain of Anna Perenna in Rome. In its basin, hundreds of offerings were unearthed, each inscribed with curses, invocations, and desires for retribution. Curse Carrier reanimates this practice for the present. Visitors are invited to throw teeth or coins into the fountain, thereby cursing someone or something. Each gesture carries its own symbolic weight:
Tooth — for psychological or bodily curse
Coin — for material or financial curse.
The sculpture begins as a raw, faceless mass. As curses accumulate, its surface transforms into a collective record of anger, desire, and imagination. The curved front is open to physical inscription and action; the back is reserved for visionary expression, where the Curse Carrier becomes a vessel for unseen forces. Like the fountains in public space, the work does not dictate belief. Its power depends on the significance visitors assign to their actions—whether ritual, play, or indifference. Yet all cursing is undertaken at the sole responsibility of the participant. The artists accept no liability for consequences. Black candles amplify the curses, calling the spirits. And beware: if coins or teeth are taken for any purpose other than ritual offering, misfortune will follow. After the exhibition, activated teeth and coins will be thrown into the dark depths of a lake.