Yona Lee at work in her Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland studio in 2024. Photo: Belmont Productions Ltd.
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Combining the intimacy of a domestic bathroom with the exuberance of a civic fountain, Yona Lee's new site specific sculpture brings a lively, restorative energy to an understairs space. Fountain in Transit was commissioned by the Christchurch Art Gallery Foundation to celebrate the Gallery building’s twentieth anniversary and responds to its name – Te Puna o Waiwhetū – which can be translated as ‘water in which stars are reflected’. Using flowing arrangements made from the kind of stainless-steel tubing associated with urban spaces and public transportation, Lee connects us with the Gallery’s architecture and history and draws on connections between water and wellbeing, opening a space for reflection and regeneration.
Curator: Felicity Milburn
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- Open daily, 10am-5pm
Address
- Corner Worcester Boulevard and Montreal Street
- Ōtautahi Christchurch, 8140
Combining the intimacy of a domestic bathroom with the exuberance of a civic fountain, Yona Lee's new site specific sculpture brings a lively, restorative energy to an understairs space. Fountain in Transit was commissioned by the Christchurch Art Gallery Foundation to celebrate the Gallery building’s twentieth anniversary and responds to its name – Te Puna o Waiwhetū – which can be translated as ‘water in which stars are reflected’. Using flowing arrangements made from the kind of stainless-steel tubing associated with urban spaces and public transportation, Lee connects us with the Gallery’s architecture and history and draws on connections between water and wellbeing, opening a space for reflection and regeneration.
Curator: Felicity Milburn
